From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Tim Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:55:33 -0400, Tim Boyer 
> wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:30:25 +0100, Adam
>><""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge"> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Dear All,
>>>
>>>Linux server where someone is running a sort of round robin check
>>>thingy. I say that coz on a quiet system there is an identical
>>>mini-spike in disk read every second or so.
>>>
>>>Is there something which can watch a hard disk & show me
what process is
>>>reading from the disk (a kind of disk top)?
>>>
>>>Adam
>>
>>iostat, maybe?
>
>
> Well, if I'd have read the _whole_ message...
>
> How about lsof?
>
>
lsof might do....I was looking at atop till it mentioned that I'd have to
apply a kernel patch. I might still do it but I'd have to restart the
server which is a bit of a pain.


Adam

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