Finding the process w/ highest I/O ?

[Marc Nozell]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:48:22PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:

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


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

Have you seen collectl? It is a pretty comprehensive ad-hoc monitoring
tool and has NFS client and server stats support.  The author works in
the HPTC space and it works in some cluster environments.

And it is completely written in perl...

-marc
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