Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:41:35 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's using the disk so much? Message-ID: <ehnm1v$5tj$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se> References: <453F5299.6060104@aleborg.se>
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Patrik Jansson wrote:
> 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.
Check out the port sysutils/lsof
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