Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: zhen <zhen@×××××××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:25:22
Message-Id: 48DCD544.8000807@dotcomltd.ru
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive by Michael Sullivan
1 Michael Sullivan ïèøåò:
2 > Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard
3 > drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd
4 > really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad
5 > that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it...
6 >
7 >
8 >
9 At first look at your swap consumption with help of utility 'free'. May
10 be you have not enough memory...
11
12 best regards,
13 Zhen