Re: status of disk i/o per process

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Cutts
On 31 Dec 2006, at 6:34 pm, liran tal wrote: Thanks for the reply Steinar. The blktrace is a tool and I was wondering if there's something in / proc itself that I can use to get some info regarding the disk i/o per process. Yes, there is. echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump causes the kernel

Re: status of disk i/o per process

2006-12-31 Thread liran tal
Thanks for the reply Steinar. The blktrace is a tool and I was wondering if there's something in /proc itself that I can use to get some info regarding the disk i/o per process. Thanks again. On 12/31/06, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:19:43PM +0100

Re: status of disk i/o per process

2006-12-31 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:19:43PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > You don't say anything about operating system, but in Linux >= 2.6.19 you can > use blktrace, which gives you this information and much more. Hm, looking at the list again it's kind of obvious what operating system you meant :

Re: status of disk i/o per process

2006-12-31 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:11:50PM +0200, liran tal wrote: > This is more kernel related since I think the information is to be gathered > from /proc but I > decided to give this great mailing list a shot at it first. > > I'm wondering how to find out the status of the disk input/ouput usage PER >

status of disk i/o per process

2006-12-31 Thread liran tal
Hey everyone, This is more kernel related since I think the information is to be gathered from /proc but I decided to give this great mailing list a shot at it first. I'm wondering how to find out the status of the disk input/ouput usage PER PROCESS. At first I thought the answer would be in /pr