Re: counters

Manik Raina
2002-05-17T09:08:17Z

Thanks for your response. What i meant was
every process could have an account of how
many bytes were read/written to various
filesystems/sockets using read()/write()
system calls.

We could dump this stuff in /proc and
it could tell us which processes are
heavily IO bound.

I am wondering if this information will
be useful to anyone.

Frank Schaefer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 16:14, Manik Raina wrote:
> > anyone knows if there are counters in the linux kernel
> > which can be read via /proc like mechanism for the
> > following :
> >
> > 1. total number of bytes read by process by syscalls
> > like read()
> >
> > 2. total number of bytes written by each process by
> > syscalls like write()
>
> Hi,
>
> as far as I know there's not a ready to use counter in the procfs.
>
> BTW: What do you want to count? Do You mean timers?
>
> It shouldn't be a problem, to write a little driver, which could make
> this available.
>
> Regards
> Frank
>
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