Forgot to mention this system is running Ubuntu 9.04. - Robert

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Robert Citek<[email protected]> wrote:
> How can I tell what process is doing a lot of disk writes?
>
> The disk usage light on my desktop machine has been on steadily for
> over the past hour.  vmstat shows me that a lot of data is going to
> disk but it doesn't tell me what process.  top doesn't show any
> process waiting for disk access.  And swap is not being touched.   Any
> thoughts on how to discover what process is pegging my disk?

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