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Subject: Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:

> You might want to see if the "io" mode of top can be
> ported to RELENG_4.
> In 5.X you can use top to display io statistics too:


Wow - that is really useful.  I didn't know you could
output like that in 5.x.


> : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10

(snip)

> The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are
> many and I don't have the
> time right now to try porting the "io mode" stuff to
> RELENG_4, but if you
> cannot do it yourself I might find a bit of time
> this weekend.


Well, porting it is way beyond my abilities, so yes,
if it is not too much trouble, that would be great. 
Alternatively, is there any other way to get this
information in 4.x - perhaps without top, etc. ?

thanks.


		
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