[clue-tech] Tracking disk i/o by process?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:01:23 -0700
dan at drivefaster.net (Dan Harris) wrote:

> I'm troubleshooting a server that is suffering from some annoying
> i/o write storms and trying to track down which processes are to
> blame.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to track the number of read/writes and  
> summarize them by pid?  dstat shows when it's happening, but doesn't  
> show us *which* processes are responsible. which is not very helpful.

Well, unfortunately it requires python-2.5, but if your machine has
that you can use iotop: 

http://guichaz.free.fr/misc/#iotop

> -Dan

kevin

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