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Re: Utility to assess which process is doing disk I/O



On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:33 +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
> This morning I noticed the HD light was on for a few minutes. Probably 
> some disk cleanup from a cron job.
> 
> I'd like to have some command which when launched would show me the live 
> processes owner programs and the I/O they are doing.
> 
> I tried looking for a "top like" command which showed I/O (tried atop 
> and atsar but did not seem to fit).
> 
> Any ideas ?

atop.  But you've got to patch the kernel to get per-process disk
stats. :(

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