Re: Identify I/O bound process.

[Ez-Aton]

Usually I/O bound proccesses would have the flag D when viewed using either `ps` or `top`. The D is for "Delayed", which means the proccess waites for something else. As CPUs today are very strong, and disk I/O has rather unchanged during the last few years, delayed proccesses wait, almost always, to I/O. Ez. David Harel wrote: Hi, Using the top command I can easily identify CPU bound processes however many times the slowness of the machine is due to I/O load and not CPU. Using the command "iostat" is not enough to identify the process that does all that trouble.