[wplug] tracking processes writing to disk

[Patrick Wagstrom]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:36:57AM -0500, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> > Is there a tool that lets me list processes and appends that
> > information with disk IO info?
>
> How about iotop? Available as a Debian package or at
> http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/
>


Thanks, it looks like iotop is pretty close to what I wanted.  For the
record for other folks it does require CONFIG_TASK_XACCT and
CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING to be enabled in the kernel, along with
CONFIG_TASKSTATS.  Fortunately, they're all enabled in the default Ubuntu
8.10 (Intrepid) kernel and iotop is in universe, so it all just works.

Thanks!

--Patrick
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