disk utilization

[nodata]

Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2007, 18:41 +0200 schrieb nodata:
> Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2007, 07:30 +1000 schrieb Steven Heimann:
> > I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to track it down.
> > 
> > Thank you and regards
> > Steven
> > 
> 
> Normally this is a case of watching top, and most of the time the cpu
> eater is the one that is also hogging the disk.
> 
> But to answer your question. There is no i/o focused top.
> You could probably get what you want using SystemTap though.
> 
> Alternatively, if you want to get a lot of info, you can print disc
> access to the kernel ring buffer and deduce from that:
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
> dmesg
> 
> 

I recommend the dmesg route, but the systemtap option (which requires
extra packages, not tested on ubuntu) is here:
 http://people.redhat.com/berrange/systemtap/process-files/