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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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Cc: Patrik Jansson <fbsd@aleborg.se>
Subject: Re: What's using the disk so much?
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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 15:03, Patrik Jansson wrote:
> Hi,
> vmstat reports that quite a few processes are waiting for io (disk access)
> so I ran gstat to see how much the drive is working and it says more or
> less 100% constantly.
> How can I determine which process (if it's mostly one single process) is
> using the disk so much? top says the CPU is mostly idle.

use "top -m io"

Nikos