[olug] "top"-like program for IO...

Daniel Linder dan at linder.org
Thu Sep 16 14:57:00 UTC 2004


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I am sure everyone know about the "top" program and how usefull it is if
you want to see what processes are chewing up your CPU and/or RAM.  What
I'm running into are programs that are keeping the HDD busy either doing
big updates/reads/writes, or the swap space being hit hard.

Is there a similar utility to top that will show the HDD activity and what
programs are causing it?  The "top" program does have a lot of IO type
features, but this does not seem to be one of them it can monitor.

Any ideas?

Dan


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