Disk top usage PIDs

[Eduardo Meyer]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> In response to "Eduardo Meyer" <dudu.meyer at gmail.com>:
>>
>> I have some serious issue. Sometimes something happens and my disk
>> usage performance find its limit quickly. I follow with gstat and
>> iostat -xw1, and everything usually happens just fine, with %b around
>> 20 and 0 to 1 pending i/o request. Suddely I get 30, 40 pending
>> requests and %b is always on 100% (or more than this).
>>
>> fstat and lsof gives me no hint, because the type of programs as well
>> as the amount of 'em is just the same.
>>
>> How can I find the PID which is hammering my disk? Is there an "iotop"
>> or "disktop" tool or something alike?
>
> top -m io -o total

Great, thats exactly what I was looking for, thank you a lot Mr Moran.

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