On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:17 +0200, Esben Stien wrote: > Peter Mogensen <apm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I'm looking at the HD led, and listening to the sound of my HD > > swapping :) > > You can use vmstat 1 10 to see if you're actually paging (not swapping) > > There is currently no way of identifying processes responsible for the > reading or writing, that I can find. > > Would be nice to have a iotop;) > I have seen one, but it was relying on a proprietary binary kernel module... The Solaris instrumentation is being ported to Freebsd, so it might get in to GNU/Linux as well. -- Frode Haugsgjerd Norway