Re: Incorrect composite disk activity values

Bill Wilson <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:49:54 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 21:02:10 +0100
Mohammed Fukeeslum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When using an SD card reader (/dev/mmcblk0), the composite chart is
> showing exactly 2x the rate of the device itself.
> 
> It looks like a bug in gkrellm as I've seen it again on my Toshiba
> laptop while using a newer kernel. Previously spotted on an arm SBC
> which has mmcblk0 as its main disk.

Thanks, I've pushed a fix for this to git.

The mmcblkN devices have a non digit 'p' in their partition numbers which
caused partitions to be recognized as separate disks.  So there was double counting.

Bill

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