What do the counters in /proc/[pid]/io mean?

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I'm creating a plugin for Munin to monitor stats of named processes. One of the sources of information would be /proc/[pid]/io. But I have a hard time finding out what the difference is between rchar/wchar and read_bytes/written_bytes.

They are not the same, as they provide different values. What do they represent?

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