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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "top" for disk access
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:11:30
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0510280005360.932@beavis.megahappy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "top" for disk access by Iain Buchanan
1 run 'vmstat 1'
2
3 On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote:
4
5 > Hi all,
6 >
7 > is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing
8 > the most disk reads/writes?
9 >
10 > Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually
11 > know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have no idea
12 > why.
13 >
14 > Any ideas?
15 >
16 > thanks,
17 >
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