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Old 01-24-2011, 07:18 AM   #1
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disk usage by process - How to check ?


Hi all,


how to check which process consuming a lot of HDD I/O ? Do You know any good command which can show me which process saving something big on the storage system ?

"iostat" or maybe "ps" ? Would be great if somebody could past me here nice command.


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Old 01-24-2011, 09:01 AM   #3
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iotop
do You know how can I install it in Redhat ? Does repository include it ?
 
Old 01-24-2011, 09:09 AM   #4
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iotop is not available for and is not possible to install on RHEL 3/4/5, because the kernel and python versions are too old. iotop IS available for RHEL 6 and can be installed with a simple "yum install iotop".
 
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