[NBLUG/talk] Which process is accessing my disk?

[Micxz (lovedialup.com)]

I think I misunderstood what you were asking. Anyone else? - Micxz

error wrote:
> 
> So where is that?
> 
> top - 20:54:23 up 17 days, 23:12,  6 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.12,
> 0.38
> Tasks:  78 total,   1 running,  77 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):   4.6% user,   2.8% system,   0.0% nice,  92.6% idle
> Mem:    256572k total,   241820k used,    14752k free,    12020k buffers
> Swap:   498004k total,   117468k used,   380536k free,    83872k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> Command
> 21392 error     11   0 12488  10m 7256 S  2.8  4.4   4:35.05 gaim
> 
> That looks to me like the PID, the user, the priority, how nice the PID
> s, the virtual memory, the resident memory, the shared memory, it's
> state, cpu %, memory %, running time and then the PIDs name.
> 
> Where in that list is similar info about disk IO?
> I don't see how many pages a given process is writing to disk with the
> exception of SWAP.
> 
> I could be wrong but you either misunderstood what I was asking for or
> you are wrong.
> 
> e.
> 
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 21:02, Micxz (lovedialup.com) wrote:
> > top
> >
> > - Micxz
> >
> > error wrote:
> > >
> > > If my hard drive is going crazy with disk IO, how can I find which PID
> > > is causing this?
> > >
> > > --
> > > error <error at sonic.net>