[wplug] Help with an investigating some unknown disk activity.

[Pat Barron]

Do you have "iotop" installed on your system?  It might help.  I have 
this on my RHEL system, not sure what other distros include it.  It 
would at least tell you what process is responsible for the disk activity.

--Pat.

On 12/3/2014 8:53 PM, Terence J. Golighlty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experiencing periodic disk activity that I cannot determine what 
> is actually happening.  I have had kept an eye on logs, run sar.  But 
> it only tells me (FWICT) when a disk read/write occurs. So what 
> utility can I use to narrow down what my HDD is doing during these 
> occasions when it sounds like its an engine idling up and down for 
> about 5 to 10 seconds and nothing for... a minute or so?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry Golightly
> WPLUG for EONS!
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