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 1KjLeF-00049j-1J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:18:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C19CE0055; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (smtp6-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.36]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BA9E0055 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B805A19716 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:18:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (arf62-1-82-237-249-228.fbx.proxad.net [82.237.249.228]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D34F19705 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:18:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48DD5FF7.1060206@free.fr> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:19:35 +0200 From: Christophe LEFEBVRE User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) 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> <20080926230829.1ac8e224@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080926230829.1ac8e224@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080926-0, 26/09/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2681647f-7e95-4b09-aad4-bc57d5c4359c X-Archives-Hash: ef14a029fff2c5aae5eb069ac1c0cc55 Hi, sys-process/iotop is like top but process are classified by disk activity= . Regards. Neil Bothwick a =E9crit : > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:16:49 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > =20 >> Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my har= d >> 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 > > I'd check it with smartmontools. > > > =20