Bug#742642: iotop reports gnome-shell I/O% but no disk I/O being done

2014-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 16:59 -0400, Dominique Brazziel wrote: I think this may be a quirk (or maybe bug) in the netlink/taskstats interface where Unix socket I/O is being counted as block I/O. I will try and write a test program to loop doing socket I/O and see if iotop shows it doing a % of

Bug#742642: iotop reports gnome-shell I/O% but no disk I/O being done

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 16:59 -0400, Dominique Brazziel wrote: I think this may be a quirk (or maybe bug) in the netlink/taskstats interface where Unix socket I/O is being counted as block I/O. I will try and write a test program to loop doing socket I/O and see if iotop shows it doing a % of

Bug#742642: iotop reports gnome-shell I/O% but no disk I/O being done

2014-03-25 Thread Dominique Brazziel
Package: iotop Version: 0.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? iotop -o shows gnome-shell doing I/O (non-zero '%I/O' value) when in fact no disk I/O is being done by gnome-shell.