Just what I was going to recommend.  In fact I installed it yesterday, but
haven't had the time to play with it yet.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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?
> >
> > >
>
>
> >
>

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