if my disks start spinning wildly i wanna know whats causing it

Daniel Chen seven.steps at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 00:43:22 UTC 2010


2010/2/8 Flávio Etrusco <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com>:
> Turns
> out no operating system/kernel has knowledge of what files are
> touching the disks or what process is trashing the swap because they
> involve separate layers that don't have full awareness of each other.

Have you used iotop(1)?

-Dan




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