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| author | Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com> | 2016-03-01 15:34:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com> | 2016-03-01 15:34:00 +0100 |
| commit | 170680a8e50d2af1f031499ebb55b0ce7c223c31 (patch) | |
| tree | 66d5e488398cf666b5fc79bc5998cc41dae2fe3f | |
| parent | 6ae5f36d43027787b513a69f45408c248c0154ed (diff) | |
| download | psutil-170680a8e50d2af1f031499ebb55b0ce7c223c31.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index b6cf4d91..91067d67 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -266,16 +266,22 @@ Disks .. function:: disk_io_counters(perdisk=False) Return system-wide disk I/O statistics as a namedtuple including the - following fields. + following fields: + - **read_count**: number of reads - **write_count**: number of writes - **read_bytes**: number of bytes read - **write_bytes**: number of bytes written - - **read_time**: (all except NetBSD and OpenBSD) time spent reading from disk (in milliseconds) - - **write_time**: (all except NetBSD and OpenBSD) time spent writing to disk (in milliseconds) - - **busy_time**: (Linux, FreeBSD) time spent doing actual I/Os (in milliseconds) - - **read_merged_count** (Linux): number of merged reads (see `iostat doc <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/iostats.txt>`__) - - **write_merged_count** (Linux): number of merged writes (see `iostats doc <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/iostats.txt>`__) + - **read_time**: (all except NetBSD and OpenBSD) time spent reading from + disk (in milliseconds) + - **write_time**: (all except NetBSD and OpenBSD) time spent writing to disk + (in milliseconds) + - **busy_time**: (Linux, FreeBSD) time spent doing actual I/Os (in + milliseconds) + - **read_merged_count** (Linux): number of merged reads + (see `iostat doc <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/iostats.txt>`__) + - **write_merged_count** (Linux): number of merged writes + (see `iostats doc <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/iostats.txt>`__) If *perdisk* is ``True`` return the same information for every physical disk installed on the system as a dictionary with partition names as the keys and |