Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:40:51 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Patrik Jansson <fbsd@aleborg.se> Cc: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's using the disk so much? Message-ID: <20061025084051.9b7d583d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se> References: <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se>
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In response to Patrik Jansson <fbsd@aleborg.se>: > Hi, > vmstat reports that quite a few processes are waiting for io (disk access) > so I ran gstat to see how much the drive is working and it says more or > less 100% constantly. > How can I determine which process (if it's mostly one single process) is > using the disk so much? top says the CPU is mostly idle. In top, hit the 'm' key and it will switch to an IO view that shows per-process IO usage. This feature of top was added some time after 4.X. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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