[CentOS] Top and Iostat

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:43 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> > Is there anyway to tell with top or iostat which process is hogging
> > all the disk I/O?
<snip>

IMHO,

The best way is to install and use the System Activity Reporting (SAR)
system. It's native, available, as detailed or general as you want and
allows a lot of way to "slice" the results. Frequency of sampling is
also under your control to allow chasing those particularly nasty
"extraneous events" that might be frequent.

HTH
-- 
Bill