How can I see which program is using alot of I/O from the HD?

[Kristof Vansant]

with the NET load detection it will become easy to detect programs that
are eating bandwidth. Handy for detecting worms for example in worst
case scenarios :). Or just one of your programs gone crazy and sending
or downloading a lot. 

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:22 +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> atop says when it's running and you press d.
> No kernel patch installed Request ignored!
> 
>       d    Show disk‐related output.
> 
>             Per process the following fields are shown: process‐id,
> number of physical disk‐reads,  average  size  per  read  (bytes),
>             total size for read‐transfers, physical disk‐writes, average
> size per write (bytes), total size for write‐transfers, disk‐
>             occupation percentage and process‐name.
>             This information can only be shown when kernel‐patch ‘cnt’
> is installed.
> 
> 
> will this patch give performance issues or instabilities? 
> Otherwise it would be nice to have that in ubuntu.
> 
> this is the kernel patch:
> http://www.atconsultancy.nl/atop/packages/atoppatch-1.14.tar.gz
> 
> 
> source: http://www.atconsultancy.nl/atop/download.html
> 
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:30 -0800, Chuck Vose wrote:
> > Ok, authority. 
> > 
> > download atop, it's in the main. I believe it will do what you need
> > (though the interface takes a little getting used to).
> > 
> > Let me know if it doesn't do what you need and we'll keep trying :)
> > 
> > -Chuck
> > 
> 
>