Re: What's using the disk so much?

2006-10-25 Thread Patrik Jansson
Hi, vmstat reports that quite a few processes are waiting for io (disk access) so I ran gstat to see how much the drive is working and it says more or less 100% constantly. How can I determine which process (if it's mostly one single process) is using the disk so much? top says the CPU is mostly

Re: What's using the disk so much?

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Patrik Jansson wrote: Hi, vmstat reports that quite a few processes are waiting for io (disk access) so I ran gstat to see how much the drive is working and it says more or less 100% constantly. How can I determine which process (if it's mostly one single process) is using the disk so much? top s

Re: What's using the disk so much?

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Patrik Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > vmstat reports that quite a few processes are waiting for io (disk access) > so I ran gstat to see how much the drive is working and it says more or > less 100% constantly. > How can I determine which process (if it's mostly one single pro

Re: What's using the disk so much?

2006-10-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 15:03, Patrik Jansson wrote: > Hi, > vmstat reports that quite a few processes are waiting for io (disk access) > so I ran gstat to see how much the drive is working and it says more or > less 100% constantly. > How can I determine which process (if it's mostly one sing