VirtualBox. One of the VMs was cranking really hard in MySQL. Regards, - Robert
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Theresa Kehoe<t...@cablemo.net> wrote: > > So what is/are the culprit(s)? > > Theresa > > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 16:45 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >> Have not as I wasn't aware of it until you mentioned it. I downloaded >> it and tried it out. Works great and was exactly what I was looking >> for. Thanks. >> >> BTW, after I tried iotop I came across atop. Not sure how they are >> related, but seems similar. And then there are several other top-like >> programs: >> >> $ apt-cache search top | grep -i '^[a-z]*top ' | grep -v desk >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Theresa Kehoe<t...@cablemo.net> wrote: >> > >> > Have you tried iotop? >> > >> > http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/find-out-which-applications-read-write.html >> > >> > Theresa >> > >> > >> > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:02 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >> >> Forgot to mention this system is running Ubuntu 9.04. - Robert >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Robert Citek<robert.ci...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > How can I tell what process is doing a lot of disk writes? >> >> > >> >> > The disk usage light on my desktop machine has been on steadily for >> >> > over the past hour. vmstat shows me that a lot of data is going to >> >> > disk but it doesn't tell me what process. top doesn't show any >> >> > process waiting for disk access. And swap is not being touched. Any >> >> > thoughts on how to discover what process is pegging my disk? >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
