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| author | Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com> | 2017-02-08 15:24:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com> | 2017-02-08 15:24:18 +0100 |
| commit | 137f704fb162023eae9510b8c67227d48beb9032 (patch) | |
| tree | 4000d4b87d233647e5f4ec3a2bfbf69f3e5a37f4 | |
| parent | e5a32988815641e0fee816ba4d2c6d779167f4c6 (diff) | |
| download | psutil-137f704fb162023eae9510b8c67227d48beb9032.tar.gz | |
update doc
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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index df383739..1a0438a1 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ Process class Return process I/O statistics as a named tuple including the number of read and write operations performed by the process and the amount of bytes read - and written. For Linux refer to + and written (cumulative). For Linux you can refer to `/proc filesysem documentation <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt>`__. On BSD there's apparently no way to retrieve bytes counters, hence ``-1`` is returned for **read_bytes** and **write_bytes** fields. OSX is not @@ -1201,23 +1201,24 @@ Process class .. method:: num_ctx_switches() The number voluntary and involuntary context switches performed by - this process. + this process (cumulative). .. method:: num_fds() - The number of file descriptors used by this process. + The number of file descriptors currently opened by this process + (non cumulative). Availability: UNIX .. method:: num_handles() - The number of handles used by this process. + The number of handles currently used by this process (non cumulative). Availability: Windows .. method:: num_threads() - The number of threads used by this process. + The number of threads currently used by this process (non cumulative). .. method:: threads() |