Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:53:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Stewart <jonstew1983@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discrepancy between ps -i -o inblk and figuring numbers by hand Message-ID: <20050325035303.41290.qmail@web50903.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 24), Jonathan Stewart said: > > In that case how would I track how much information a process has > > actually read from a drive? I occasionally run processes that will > > read as much as 40+ gig in a single run which takes quite a while > and > > on windows :P I can see "bytes read" and "bytes written" per > process > > which lets me track how much the program has read so far and thus > get > > an idea of how close it is to done. Sorry for the run-on sentence > > there. > > I use lsof, which can tell you the file offset of each open > filedescriptor. "lsof -o -o20 -p ###" will print all the files > currently opened by pid ###, and their current offset. > Hmm, that almost works but the program opens 1000's of files each time. The program is Unison which is a file synchronizer and I have it synchronizing files sets >40GB with and 1000's or more files. Based on your description once the file is closed I can't even tell if it was read or not :P Thanks (a bunch) again, Jonathan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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