Re: top for hard disk usage

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 19:15 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
David Timms wrote:
What tool can tell me why my hard disk light is essentially on, performing continuous access ?

top doesn't seem to show the culprit since it mustn't use enough CPU.

Fedora 9 i386 if it matters.

Also, is there similar for network ?

Is there a tool which will allow me to track io by process? I can do it by putting a printk in the kernel, rebuilding, and wading through MB of logs, but what I want is a way to find out which process or kthread is writing to my disk when the system is dead idle.

Of course the logging operation causes disk i/o... so it's kind of ugly to use.

In the Old Days (tm) there used to be a utility called iostat, but it
seems to have joined the 'eavenly choir eternal.

No, it's around. "yum -y install sysstat" (at least for F8, dunno about
F9...haven't set it up yet).
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