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

[Justin Smith]

That's a very handy utility! 

For the other two people in the world who use OpenSUSE, it seems iotop is 
available from the official repositories.

On Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:15:26 AM Pat Barron wrote:
> 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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*Justin Smith*
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