[CentOS] Top and Iostat

Mon Jan 12 18:43:46 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Matt wrote:
> Is there anyway to tell with top or iostat which process is hogging
> all the disk I/O?
>   

iostat won't drill down to per process statistics

`top` or `ps` shows any processes in heavy iowait... 

or, maybe lsof could give you some clues (as it lists all open files)