Well, I'm tired so ntop not working right might just be me....  On the other
hand, in response to Theresa....  I have noticed that certain sites in
Firefox seem to consume a lot of processing power... like MSNBC and
BoingBoing.  Open a bunch of pages (e.g., the New York Times
or digg.com) and the processor runs smoothly.  Open a bunch of MSNBC pages
and you'll see a big jump in processor usage.


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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, 200 9-07-03 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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