What's using the disk so much?
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 idle. Thanks, -Patrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's using the disk so much?
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 single process) is using the disk so much? top says the CPU is mostly idle. use top -m io Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's using the disk so much?
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 process) is using the disk so much? top says the CPU is mostly idle. In top, hit the 'm' key and it will switch to an IO view that shows per-process IO usage. This feature of top was added some time after 4.X. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's using the disk so much?
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 says the CPU is mostly idle. Check out the port sysutils/lsof -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's using the disk so much?
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 idle. use top -m io I have completly missed that option, thanks. I will also checkout sysustils/lsof which J.A. recommended. -Patrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
