Re: Composite disk double counts

Mohammed Fukeeslum <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:38:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
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Can't say I haven't reported similar stuff for /dev/mmcblk :)

On 8/25/16, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using version 2.3.7 from Fedora 24 repositories.
> Also noted the same problem on F22 and F23 releases.
>
> The composite disk graph reports double the data
> rates of the individual disks.  This is most easily
> seen when one file system is heavily used.
>
> I'm using 4 drives, 2 SSDs and 2 HDs.  Each has
> 4 partitions.  Most of the partitions are then
> used as physical volumes for LVMs.
>
> In the configuration panel I can display the
> partitions (ex sda2) and/or the LVMs (ex dm-8).
> My supposition is that both the partitions
> and the LVMs are added together to get the
> composite number.  This would result in
> counting the same activity twice.
>
> Jon
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