Re: monitoring swap i/o

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:06:21 +0100
> Pol <linux_milano@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> > I would like to be able to exactly monitor programs i/o in the swap
> > area; 'top' does not seem to be the right tool as processes are sorted
> > according to the total amount of swap space used, while i would like
> > processes with high i/o activity (albeit in small amounts) to be
> > highlighted. 
>
> Check out iotop?

Good clue.
What shows up is pdflush. What's that?

Hugo