On 03/03/07, David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Not sure about drilling down, there might be a plugin for it, but dstat
was really useful for me recently in troubleshooting this type of problem.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/
yeah it looks like dstat_app plugin might do what you want...

dave



Dave,
Thanks for the tip.
I ran 'apt-get install dstat' on my ubuntu system which installed dstat and
a bunch of plugins.
Still getting my bearings, but your second tip about the app plugin was also
useful.
I'm running something like:
 dstat -dplmy --nocolor -M app
where '-M app' includes this plugin.  The plugin is poking around in
/proc/<pid>/stat so my answer might be lurking in there somewhere.

Cheers,
Daniel


Daniel B. wrote:
> Hi all,
> How do I work out which processes are writing/reading to my disk -
> say, the
> last hour or so, maybe the top 10 in terms of frequency and volume.  I'm
> looking at sar, iostat, lsof for instance.  On my system monitor I have
> regular, periodic spikes on my disk that seem bigger than normal.  How
> do I
> investigate this sort of thing?  Also interested in any
> recommendations on
> reading material for performance tuning and monitoring (security) of
> linux-like systems if anyone cares to recommend them.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel


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