Hi for your information, I was suffering from the same problem with version 0.4-2 on amd64 architecture. But the last Git revision seems to partialy solve the problem in my case.
~$ iotop -obk -n1 Total DISK READ: 1582.97 K/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 K/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND 10115 be/4 manuel 6798788191870.07 K/s 1062310654979.70 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % rtorrent debian-live-6.0.0-i386-xfce-desktop.iso.torrent With last Git revision, Disk read/Disk write values are ok: ~/paquets/iotop$ ./iotop.py -okb -n1 Total DISK READ: 1980.04 K/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 K/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND 10115 be/4 manuel 1785.92 K/s 0.00 K/s 0.00 % 45.72 % rtorrent debian-live-6.0.0-i386-xfce-desktop.iso.torrent However when sorting processes by write/read size in interactive mode, the IO percentages are sometime wrong (with both current debian package and Git): 520 be/4 manuel 43.20 P 20.41 P 0.00 % -441921744.24 % firefox-bin 1020 be/4 root 16.00 T 9.89 P 0.00 % -574477165.34 % [kjournald] Björn, do you notice this problem too ? I don't know if it's possible to grab this data in non-interactive mode. -- manu xmpp:deb...@conference.jabber.org?join -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org