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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:52:06 +0200
From:      Patrik Jansson <fbsd@aleborg.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's using the disk so much?
Message-ID:  <453F5DF6.5070207@aleborg.se>
In-Reply-To: <200610251539.21200.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
References:  <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se> <200610251539.21200.nvass@teledomenet.gr>

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>> 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"
I have completly missed that option, thanks.
I will also checkout sysustils/lsof which J.A. recommended.

-Patrik



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