Knowing which process is accessing disk mostly

[Joep L. Blom]

Owen Townend schreef:
> 2008/8/15 Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Many a times it happens that I see a lot of disk activity even though
>> I am not running any programs. Looking in System Monitor doesn't show
>> a column for disk activity or any related information.
>>
>> How can I sort out processes to know which is the process, which is
>> accessing disk most actively?
>>
> 
> There is a console monitor 'atop' which can do network and disk usage
> per process. The default view is only totals as a kernel patch is
> required to get the more detailed stats. I too would be interested if
> there is a monitor out there that can present this type of info
> without a kernel patch.
> 
> cheers,
> Owen.
> 
For this task I use gkrellm.It can be installed with synaptic.
It gives all relevant hardware information (temp, fan-speed, voltages, 
disks, etc.).
I use it over 4 years in diferent Linux flavors.
Joep