Hi list, I'm trying to get device IO status (i.e. read and written bytes) by using the devstat interface, and I wrote this small program (mostly inspired by the gkrellm2 port freebsd.c system-dependent module).
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <devstat.h>
#define MB ((double)(1024.0 * 1024.0))
int main(void)
{
int curr_dev,
nof_devs,
nof_selected,
nof_selections;
int max_devs = 256;
long sel_gen;
struct statinfo si;
struct devinfo di;
struct device_selection *ds = NULL;
si.dinfo = malloc(sizeof(struct devinfo));
bzero(si.dinfo, sizeof(struct devinfo));
if(devstat_getdevs(NULL, &si) < 0)
return (-1);
nof_devs = si.dinfo->numdevs;
if(devstat_selectdevs(&ds, &nof_selected, &nof_selections,
&sel_gen, si.dinfo->generation,
si.dinfo->devices, nof_devs,
NULL, 0, NULL, 0, DS_SELECT_ONLY,
max_devs, 1) < 0)
return (-1);
printf("NAME\tIN\tOUT\n");
for(curr_dev = 0; curr_dev < nof_devs; curr_dev++)
{
struct devstat *d_stat;
d_stat = &si.dinfo->devices[ds[curr_dev].position];
printf("%s%d\t%.2lf MB\t%.2lf MB\n", d_stat->device_name,
d_stat->unit_number,
d_stat->bytes[1] / d_stat->block_size / MB,
d_stat->bytes[2] / d_stat->block_size / MB);
}
free(si.dinfo);
return (0);
}
I compile it by gcc -ggdb -ldevstat -o iostat iostat.c
and run it:
>./iostat
NAME IN OUT
ad0 9.02 MB 9.65 MB
Now, I suppose that those two numbers represent the amount of IO
generated within some time slice, but I can't find any documentation on
it...
Could anyone explain it to me?
Thank you in advance!
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