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?
>>
>> >
>
>
> >
>

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