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Date:      Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:52:45 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: iotop (dtrace?)
Message-ID:  <2B3AA9F7-641A-4F84-B55F-E29732B0568A@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <20111025205054.GB86420@azathoth.lan>
References:  <EEC47FD8-63E0-4F7E-8994-CCEC720C2C5B@lassitu.de> <20111025205054.GB86420@azathoth.lan>

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Am 25.10.2011 um 22:50 schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:34:39PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>> I've got two systems with a constantly high rate of disk I/O that sometimes seems to be overwhelmed from it.  Before trying to decide if a hardware upgrade will help, I'd like to figure out which processes generate the load.
>> 
>> I've found a couple scripts named iotop which appear to produce what I would be interested in, but they appear to require Solaris or Linux. 
>> 
>> Has someone ported over one of them, or would have a suggestion how to go about writing a custom dtrace script to gather this kind of information?
>> 
>> I can successfully run a couple of sample dtrace scripts on these 8-stable amd64 boxes.
>> 
> 
> Can't 'top -mio' do the job?

D'oh!


Thanks!

Stefan

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