Check out the archives.
We discussed this in the past.
IIRC, you can use echo "1" > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump 
(it might also involve /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode but i can't remember why).
and then tail /proc/kmsg to see the dump of the processes i/o requests.

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 12:32, Danny Lieberman wrote:
> guys
>
> How do I get the real IO (block reads/writes per second, not cached) of
> each process on a running Linux system?
> vmstat and iostat dont provide process level detail
>
> I'm looking at a system right now which is CPU idle but very IO busy and
> I cant figure out who's moving the disks around.
>
>
> I thought this would be the most trivial question....maybe it is....
>
> 10x

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