[ILUG] What process is generating disk I/O

[Pete McEvoy]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:26:19PM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> 
> Running vmstat 1 on a machine shows me a certain amount of block I/O.
> 
> But, short of strace-ing everything running on the machine, how can
> I determine which processes are generating this I/O?
> 
> lsof will show me open files, but that doesn't help much.

It wouldnt be anything as simple as running "ps aux|grep D" to find
processes in disk wait?


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Pete