我正在为Munin创建一个插件来监控已命名进程的统计信息。其中一个信息来源是/proc/[pid]/io。但我很难找到rchar / wchar和read_bytes / written_bytes之间的区别。
它们不一样，因为它们提供不同的值。它们代表什么？
答案 0 :(得分：61)
虽然proc manpage可悲地落后（关于任何与cookie切割用户空间开发无关的任何内容的大多数联机帮助文档/文档也是如此），幸运的是，这些内容完全记录在Linux kernel source下{ {3}}。以下是相关内容：
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. <please add status regarding NFS and
CIFS at a later time>
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.