Monitoring disk activity by process ID
Ted Markowitz
tjm at cognosys.net
Tue Dec 13 22:34:28 UTC 2005
Is anyone familiar with a way of breaking down real-time disk activity
stats (reads & writes over time) by the specific process ID's that are
accessing the device in question? Every utility I can think of
aggregates R/W activity at the device level and there's no obvious way
to show who (that is, exactly which process or thread) is doing what to
cause the reads & writes. I'm particularly interested in coming up with
an easy way of monitoring exactly what process might be causing spikes
in disk activity as they occur. Any thoughts or suggestions would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--ted
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Ted Markowitz
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