Re: Sorting processes by disk usage?

["Donald R. Spoon" <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Try KDE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is  the  situation: the hard drive LED is flashing every 2 seconds, 
> I don't  which process is causing it, or if it's a kernel thread doing 
> swapping or something. So how can I find out? "top" doesn't seem to 
> answer that question. (Note that a disk intensive program is not 
> neccesarrily CPU intensive).
>
> Thanks,
> -tk

I had this a while back on my DEC Alpha.  I suspected usage of the SWAP 
partition, but I never could "see" it.  For other reasons, I increased 
my memory from 64 Megs to 256 Megs and it stopped!  Someone much smarter 
than I told me it was "page swapping"...whatever that means. If your RAM 
memory is a little on the schosi side and you are running memory-hungry 
apps like Mozilla or KDE, then an infusion of RAM might help....dunno.

FYI,

-Don Spoon-