top for hard disk usage

[Roger Heflin]

David Timms wrote:
> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> top groups it into "0.0%wa" - this is total CPU percentage used for 
>> disk IO
> cool, but doesn't say which app is causing the high io.
> 
> And now I'm seeing an issue with yum and I can't easily install the 
> Xtops that have been mentioned. If it occurs again, I'll post back the 
> result.
> 


  /proc/<pid>/io

looks like this:

rchar: 90415
wchar: 12575
syscr: 1381
syscw: 1409
read_bytes: 595968
write_bytes: 12288
cancelled_write_bytes: 0

Given that, a topio could be written, or added to the top command.

                               Roger