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Re: Sorting processes by disk usage?



On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:41:10AM -0400, 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).

If you're running a 2.4 kernel watch top and see if `kswapd' is running:
it's the kernel swapping daemon.  Running in the sense that it's state
is `run', of course, not just listed in the process table.

-rob

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