Hi All,

Many a times it happens that I see a lot of disk activity even though
I am not running any programs. Looking in System Monitor doesn't show
a column for disk activity or any related information.

How can I sort out processes to know which is the process, which is
accessing disk most actively?

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2008/8/15 Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26@gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> Many a times it happens that I see a lot of disk activity even though
> I am not running any programs. Looking in System Monitor doesn't show
> a column for disk activity or any related information.
>
> How can I sort out processes to know which is the process, which is
> accessing disk most actively?
>

There is a console monitor 'atop' which can do network and disk usage
per process. The default view is only totals as a kernel patch is
required to get the more detailed stats. I too would be interested if
there is a monitor out there that can present this type of info
without a kernel patch.

cheers,
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Owen Townend schreef:
> 2008/8/15 Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26@gmail.com>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Many a times it happens that I see a lot of disk activity even though
>> I am not running any programs. Looking in System Monitor doesn't show
>> a column for disk activity or any related information.
>>
>> How can I sort out processes to know which is the process, which is
>> accessing disk most actively?
>>
>
> There is a console monitor 'atop' which can do network and disk usage
> per process. The default view is only totals as a kernel patch is
> required to get the more detailed stats. I too would be interested if
> there is a monitor out there that can present this type of info
> without a kernel patch.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>
For this task I use gkrellm.It can be installed with synaptic.
It gives all relevant hardware information (temp, fan-speed, voltages,
disks, etc.).
I use it over 4 years in diferent Linux flavors.
Joep


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"Joep L. Blom" <jlblom@neuroweave.nl> said:
> For this task I use gkrellm.It can be installed with synaptic.
> It gives all relevant hardware information (temp, fan-speed,
> voltages, disks, etc.).
> I use it over 4 years in diferent Linux flavors.
> Joep

I use gps started from gkrellm's GKrellm-bfm. It's a graphical
representation of top and you may sort by clicking on the top tabs. To
see what's using your CPU just click ion the CPU tab.

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"Owen Townend" <owen.townend@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/8/15 Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26@gmail.com>:

> There is a console monitor 'atop' which can do network and disk usage
> per process. The default view is only totals as a kernel patch is
> required to get the more detailed stats. I too would be interested if
> there is a monitor out there that can present this type of info
> without a kernel patch.

Here (Ubuntu 8.04) atop works with the standard kernel. Pressing "d"
sorts according to disk activity, "d" shows some disk activity details


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No one knows?

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26@gmail.com> wrote:

No one knows?



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I would love to know how to do things like this also because I want to get a new harddrive and want to know what to put where to make my system faster. Should root go on one and home on the other etc??


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Apologies for previous mail, my mail delivery was off.

However I am trying to find current activities, pressing "d" in atop
tell me percentage of total disk activity not which process right now
is accessing most.

gkrellm also doesn't give that information.


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"Ashish Yadav" <ashishyadav26@gmail.com> wrote:

> However I am trying to find current activities, pressing "d" in atop
> tell me percentage of total disk activity not which process right now
> is accessing most.

It works for me in a freshly installed Xubuntu 8.04 with the generic
x86 Kernel.



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2008/8/16 Florian Diesch <diesch@spamfence.net>:
> "Owen Townend" <owen.townend@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/8/15 Ashish Yadav <ashishyadav26@gmail.com>:
>
>> There is a console monitor 'atop' which can do network and disk usage
>> per process. The default view is only totals as a kernel patch is
>> required to get the more detailed stats. I too would be interested if
>> there is a monitor out there that can present this type of info
>> without a kernel patch.
>
> Here (Ubuntu 8.04) atop works with the standard kernel. Pressing "d"
> sorts according to disk activity, "d" shows some disk activity details
>
>
> Florian

So it does, I haven't tried it in a long time because of the original
need for a patch. Great to know!
The network use per process still seems to need a patch though.
Hopefully next time.

cheers,
Owen.

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