Have not as I wasn't aware of it until you mentioned it. I downloaded it and tried it out. Works great and was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
BTW, after I tried iotop I came across atop. Not sure how they are related, but seems similar. And then there are several other top-like programs: $ apt-cache search top | grep -i '^[a-z]*top ' | grep -v desk Regards, - Robert 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? >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
