req: way to find out which processes are hogging disk I/O
 

Hi there.

I'm trying to find a way to find out which processes are responsible for most of the disk I/O on my machine. I tried iostat but don't see a way to get the data I'm looking for.

It would be great if this solution worked on Darwin also.


TIA

A program can't hog disk i/o without hogging the cpu. Try top.

Not true. Have a look at this thread, just updated.
Will require a recent kernel, the appropriate kernel option(s), and the mentioned package. I've not had an opportunity to test yet, but looks useful.