linux proc io,在/proc/[pid]/io 中，理解计数器_linux-kernel_开发99编程知识库

虽然proc从 ( 所以大多数手册/文档都与 cookie-cutter user-space开发无关) 背后是可悲,这个东西完全是幸运的是记录在linux内核源代码Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 。 以下是相关的位：rchar

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I/O counter: chars read

The number of bytes which this task has caused to be read from storage. This

is simply the sum of bytes which this process passed to read() and pread().

It includes things like tty IO and it is unaffected by whether or not actual

physical disk IO was required (the read might have been satisfied from

pagecache)

wchar

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I/O counter: chars written

The number of bytes which this task has caused, or shall cause to be written

to disk. Similar caveats apply here as with rchar.

read_bytes

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I/O counter: bytes read

Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process really did cause to

be fetched from the storage layer. Done at the submit_bio() level, so it is

accurate for block-backed filesystems.

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write_bytes

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I/O counter: bytes written

Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process caused to be sent to

the storage layer. This is done at page-dirtying time.