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



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:46 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
>> John <JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On (13/04/05 13:37), Bob Alexander wrote:
>> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> >> From: Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>
> [snip]
>> Especially with journaling file systems users tend to notice regular
>> disk activity without knowing which process might cause this. Afaik, it's
>> been a long standing issue that there's effectively no known tool
>> which allows disk activity monitoring including process attribution,
>> maybe even without kernel patching. And htop, I'm afraid, doesn't
>> offer that capability either.
>> 
>> If anybody knows more, I'd be interested as well.
>
> OpenSolaris?

Dear me, I actually have two Solaris/Sparc machines doing duty here,
but have a distinct feeling that we were talking Linux ...

Anyway, thanks for your pointer :)

Regards, Bruno.



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