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

John Lewis oflameo2 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 05:53:18 EST 2014


I think iotop can be substituted with iostat if you have sysstat on your
system. If you have sar installed you have iostat installed.

On 12/04/2014 10:15 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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