From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EVVUy-0007R2-Mz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:46:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9SEjWdM002631; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:45:32 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9SEee4a014981 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:40:40 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVPL-0006L2-SS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:40:40 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EVVNG-0004od-DY for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:38:32 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:38:30 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:38:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: "top" for disk access Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1130459851.12217.43.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9cc28e9d-f12c-45da-84ab-fbfe032916a1 X-Archives-Hash: 5d80541dc0fa67f2de99f63db049be44 Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > is there a top-like utility that can tell me what processes are doing > the most disk reads/writes? bonnie and bonnie++ might help eix bonnie > Sometimes my disk will go crazy, and my system slow down. I usually > know its updatedb, or something similar, but sometimes I have no idea > why. Lots of possibilities on these sort of questions. There is a fantastic network monitoring tool that monitors all sorts of system performance issues, call 'jffnms'. It's in portage, but, masked at the moment. It's a bit daunting to get happy, but well worth the effort. I'm waiting for it to stablize on gentoo. It was very difficult to get happy under debian, the last time I hacked at it for a client. http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list