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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:39:20 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Patrik Jansson <fbsd@aleborg.se>
Subject:   Re: What's using the disk so much?
Message-ID:  <200610251539.21200.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se>
References:  <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se>

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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



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