Re: Hard Disk Activity

[Rick Malt <ric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

when in top press 'P' (upper case P) and 'M'
P for sort by cpu usage and M for memory usage.
then u can pstree to see which process or parent process is running that.

Ric

edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:02:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: <edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Hard Disk Activity
> > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Is there any way to determine what is causing
> > excessive hard disk activity on my system. I don't
> >    
> run
>  
>
> > a whole lot of processes, so I really don't know what
> > the root (no pun intended) cause is.
> >
> > Perhaps a utility I could install?
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --__--__--
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:28:33 +0307
> > From: Rick Malt <ric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Hard Disk Activity
> > Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > 1 . # top
> > 2 . # pstree [ -p ]
> >
> > Ric
> >    
>
> Those don't give me very much info. Top doesn't show
> anything out of the ordinary. pstree, well is just a
> tree of processes.
> I'm looking for what's causing the disk activity, not
> a list of processes.
>
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