vicious/dio.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
--  * Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian C. <anrxc_sysphere_org>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local type = type
local ipairs = ipairs
local io = { open = io.open }
local math = { floor = math.floor }
local table = { insert = table.insert }
-- }}}


-- Disk I/O: provides I/O statistics for requested storage devices
module("vicious.dio")


-- Initialise function tables
local disk_usage = {}
local disk_total = {}

-- {{{ Disk I/O widget type
function worker(format, disk)
    -- Get /proc/diskstats
    local f = io.open("/proc/diskstats")
    local disk_lines = {}

    -- Format data
    for line in f:lines() do
        if line:match("("..disk..")%s") then
            -- Todo: find a way to do this
            --for stat in line:gmatch("%s([%d]+)") do
            --    table.insert(disk_lines, stat)
            --end
            --
            -- Skip first two matches
            local stat = line:gmatch("%s([%d]+)")
            stat()
            stat()
            -- Store the rest
            for i = 1, 11 do
                table.insert(disk_lines, stat())
            end
        end
    end
    f:close()

    -- Ensure tables are initialized correctly
    while #disk_total < #disk_lines do
        table.insert(disk_total, 0)
    end

    -- Setup tables
    local diff_total  = {}

    for i, v in ipairs(disk_lines) do
        -- Diskstats are absolute, substract our last reading
        diff_total[i] = v - disk_total[i]

        -- Store totals
        disk_total[i] = v
    end

    -- Calculate I/O
    disk_usage["{raw}"] = diff_total[7] + diff_total[3]
    -- Divide "sectors read" by 2 and 1024 to get KB and MB
    disk_usage["{kb}"] = math.floor(diff_total[7] + diff_total[3])/2
    disk_usage["{mb}"] = math.floor(diff_total[7] + diff_total[3])/1024

    return disk_usage
end
-- }}}