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Old 04-12-2011, 05:14 PM   #1
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Heavy IO command


Hi All,
Is there a command to check specific processes that's using the most IO/disk usage? I know sar and ps but I want more specific details on IO on individual processes.

Thanks.
 
Old 04-12-2011, 05:21 PM   #2
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iotop

If your distro is new enough
 
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Old 04-12-2011, 05:22 PM   #3
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Hello L1nuxn00b703,
Code:
top
also check the manpage for top.
Code:
man top
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Old 04-12-2011, 06:15 PM   #4
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Thanks for the replies, I chked the man pages of top and it only displays CPU, MEM, SWAP, and Virt MEM usage. I don't see anything out IO usage. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

@AlucardZero - I dont have iotop on my server, its CentOS 5.5
 
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iotop is just a python script - google for it.
If you don't have the taskstats support in your kernel, it will tell you and exit no harm done. If you don't have the kernel support, you are out of luck.
 
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http://linux.die.net/man/1/iostat
 
  


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