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[ILUG] What process is generating disk I/O

[ILUG] What process is generating disk I/O

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Wed Feb 14 16:33:15 GMT 2007


Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Kenn Humborg wrote:
>> Not really as useful as I expected, unfortunately.  It's easy enough
>> to see who is reading blocks, but all the writes are attributed to
>> kjournald or pdflush.
> 
> Yep it's describing what the kernel is doing to the disk,
> not what userspace is asking of the kernel.

Though in saying that you can a lot from who is dirtying the pages:

tail -f /var/log/debug | grep -Ev '(kjournald|pdflush|syslogd)'

Pádraig.



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