Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Kernel 2.6 /proc/stat

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Alex,

>> Recently, I've installed lcd4linux version 0.9.11 on my Gentoo
>> Linux | system. I setup the config files and everything seems to
>> work. However, | the Hard Disk IO stats doesn't seems to move and i
>> checked it with | "lcd4linux -F -vvv" and it seems that the
>> /proc/stat no longer contains | the information it needs to get the
>> disk_io and disk_rblk.

> After looking over vmstat for a bit, it seems they've calculated the 
> sums of the disk stats from /proc/diskstat. Maybe it's possible to
> read from that? (Just wondering if it's possible to have this work
> with Kernel 2.6.x)

Hmmm, this is bad news.

I will look into this as soon as my kernel 2.6 is up and running (which 
may take several weeks, because there are som mission-critical things 
not working with 2.6)

Our main kernel we're developing with is still 2.4.

Xavier, do you have time to take a look at this?

bye, Michael

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