Finding the process w/ highest I/O ?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu May 15 14:48:22 EDT 2008


Hi all,

How can I easily/quickly (programmatically?) find the top N processes
on a Linux system using the most I/O ?

There's an errant process eating up NFS space.  We have over 400 NFS
clients, any one of which *could* be the culprit.

Since the NFS server is an appliance, there's really no way to query it.

I'm thinking a shell (or perl) script, ssh, and
<some /proc thingy here> should be able to tell me this...

Any ideas?

Thanks.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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