On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, gilly wrote:
> In the linux PMDA, in proc_stat.c file (parsing of /proc/stat file) there's
> a different parsing for 2.4 kernels and 2.2 ones. I'm running on 2.4.6 linux
> kernel and in /proc/stat the line says:
> "disk_io:............." (disk io stats for all devices) includes 5
> parameters, and not 4 as expected in proc_stat.c:
> instead of - (X,Y):(RIO,RBLK,WIO,WBLK),
> the line is - (X,Y):(TOTALIO*,RIO,RBLK,WIO,WBLK)
> *(TOTALIO = RIO + WIO)
> Attached is an example for /proc/stat file in 2.4.6 linux kernel & a fix for
> this bug.
thanks, it looks like you are correct and I have applied your patch. Most
of the machines around here have the "sard" patch applied (which gives
extra I/O accounting in /proc/partitions) and if sard stats are available
then /proc/stat is not used for disk stats.
-- Mark
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