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From: Christophe LEFEBVRE <clefebvre.62@free.fr>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:19:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DD5FF7.1060206@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080926230829.1ac8e224@digimed.co.uk>

Hi,

sys-process/iotop is like top but process are classified by disk activity.

Regards.

Neil Bothwick a écrit :
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:16:49 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
>   
>> 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...
>>     
>
> I'd check it with smartmontools.
>
>
>   




      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26 12:16 [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive Michael Sullivan
2008-09-26 12:19 ` Justin
2008-09-26 12:21 ` Johann Schmitz
2008-09-26 12:27 ` zhen
2008-09-26 15:19 ` Paul Hartman
2008-09-26 15:46 ` Liviu Andronic
2008-09-26 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2008-09-26 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2008-09-26 22:19   ` Christophe LEFEBVRE [this message]

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