Knowing which process is accessing disk mostly

[Florian Diesch]

"Owen Townend" <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/8/15 Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26 at gmail.com>:

> 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.

Here (Ubuntu 8.04) atop works with the standard kernel. Pressing "d"
sorts according to disk activity, "d" shows some disk activity details


   Florian
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