Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Hurst
* martinko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > well, thanks for the switch. i couldn't find any > description/explanation of/on the columns (VCSW,..) in top(1) man > page, though. :( VCSW = Voluntary Context Switch IVCSW = Involuntary Context Switch A very nice article on the meaning of these is here:

Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-09-26 Thread martinko
Shanker Balan wrote: Hello, Francisco Reyes wrote, On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: Is there a way to find out which program(s) are causing the I/O? ktrace(8); you can use it to trace all descendants of 'init'. Looking at the man page it's non-obvious how to use it (to me). Sp