Re: [gentoo-user] "top" for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:16:54PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing > > > the most disk reads/writes? > > > > run 'vmstat 1' > > that doesn't seem to tell me what processes are running, only what the > system totals are. I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] "top" for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, thanks for your reply, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 00:05 -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing > > the most disk reads/writes? > > run 'vmstat 1' that doesn't seem to t

Re: [gentoo-user] "top" for disk access

2005-10-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
run 'vmstat 1' On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have

[gentoo-user] "top" for disk access

2005-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing the most disk reads/writes? Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have no idea why. Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL