On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Chris Brown wrote: > Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. > They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for > 10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is > accessing the disks?
actually, top will do it quite nicely in many cases -- processes which are blocked on i/o are shown in the 'D' state. run top while the disks are getting nailed and spot the process(es) in 'D' state. -thomas ...... please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
