Re: spoting the I/O hog

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 05:32:34AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > > Apart from killing the processes one by one (there are many), is there a
> > > way to discover which process is the I/O hog?  
> > ktrace them ?
> 
> Won't that introduce even more I/O overhead?

It will, but this will show you which one is doing a lot of I/O
(and possibly what it's doing exactly)

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