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vnix27
Asked: 2011-04-18 22:18:38 +0800 CST

In absense of iotop which command is most appropriate for get i/o bounded process

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Suggest me best way to list io bounded process. I know iotop is best way to get list but want any alternate option since my system showing a large number of D state process.

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2 Answers

  1. You can check the IO usage of any process by looking at the /proc/[pid]/io file. Example:

    $ cat /proc/1775/io
read_bytes: 4366336
write_bytes: 45056
cancelled_write_bytes: 229376
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  2. Best Answer

    Duplicated of: Linux - How can I see what's waiting for disk IO see that URL for a simple solution.

    And you can enable disk I/O logging putting 1 into /proc/sys/vm/block_dump. then tail -f /var/log/syslog will give you reads and writes (process, pid, operation, blocks and device). Do not forget to return /proc/sys/vm/block_dump to zero when you're done.

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