ntop looks interesting thanks for the apt-cache search top | grep -i '^[a-z]*top ' | grep -v desk, by the way.... It's now part of my arsenal.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
