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Mismatch in IO from header vs table when running with -a option #92

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@graysky2

Running iotop -a as root is showing plenty of disk read in the header section, yet nothing is getting recorded in the "Disk Read" column:

  Total DISK READ:   53.00 M   ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤ |   Total DISK WRITE:   36.00 K   ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
Current DISK READ: 1005.89 K/s ⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷ | Current DISK WRITE:    0.00 B/s ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀
TID     PRIO USER      DISK READ▽  DISK WRITE  SWAPIN   IO       GRAPH[IO]       COMMAND                              (08:48:45)
    1   be/4 root         0.00 B      0.00 B     0.00 %   0.00 % ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  systemd                                      ▲
    2   be/4 root         0.00 B      0.00 B     0.00 %   0.00 % ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  kthreadd                                     █
    3   be/4 root         0.00 B      0.00 B     0.00 %   0.00 % ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  pool_workqueue_release                       █
    4   be/0 root         0.00 B      0.00 B     0.00 %   0.00 % ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  kworker/R-rcu_gp                             ▁
    5   be/0 root         0.00 B      0.00 B     0.00 %   0.00 % ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀  kworker/R-sync_wq
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Am I invoking the program incorrectly?

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