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? >> > >> >> > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > > >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
