Have you tried iotop? http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/find-out-which-applications-read-write.html
Theresa On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:02 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > 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? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
