So what is/are the culprit(s)?

Theresa

On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 16:45 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> 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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