How to identify disk abusing process?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:36:02PM -0400, Bob - BLU wrote:
> So here is a Linux question that's been nagging at me.  Is there a simple 
> (command line) way of identifying processes that are creating heavy disk 
> i/o?  I suppose I could wrap some shell script around sar, or poke around 
> in /proc, but thought asking here might be more productive and fun.  Any 
> thoughts?

The thing which occurs to me first is that a heavy disk user
will show up in top or ps as waiting for I/O all the time.

-dsr-

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