[ILUG] What process is generating disk I/O

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Wed Feb 14 13:19:15 GMT 2007


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.

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
tail -f /var/log/debug

Pádraig.



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