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Feature: add total for IO tab
Hello!
iotop great utility for CPU usage. It shows total and per process usage. But switching to IO tab lack of total IO usage metric.
I guess top panel can be replaced with per device IO and total meter.
EDIT: per device
EDIT: Looks like iotop not showing correct values of bytes written to the disk. but biotop does. Would be nice to have '-a' accumulate mode.
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/biotop_example.txt
Adding totals for a process (sub)tree isn't as straight forward internally for htop, as the data structures used internally don't easily provide the necessary information to do this on-the-fly.
Regarding totals: it would be really convenient to be able to sort by totals this way. Useful in case I want to figure out application (container, build activity, etc) causing most resource usage and select it all, not look it up after finding the most hungry process.