From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KjCNu-0007Oj-Cu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:25:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 627B9E0655; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.dotcomltd.ru (dotcomltd.ru [213.147.43.130]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14785E0655 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (zhen.dotcomltd.ru [192.168.0.10]) by mail.dotcomltd.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B797E145B32 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:25:45 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <48DCD544.8000807@dotcomltd.ru> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:27:48 +0400 From: zhen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive References: <1222431409.22042.14.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1222431409.22042.14.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 59a514ce-5d65-4303-90e7-3d2c5f8556ca X-Archives-Hash: aa49ccf7239add2dd7100ba48d631379 Michael Sullivan =EF=E8=F8=E5=F2: > Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard > drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'= d > really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad > that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it... > > > =20 At first look at your swap consumption with help of utility 'free'. May=20 be you have not enough memory... best regards, Zhen