Am 27. Jun, 2011 schwätzte Mike Ballon so: > you've mentioned iostat and vmstat so lets skip those. > > I would start sar and saving running process at the same interval, normal 5mins. Also looked at sar output :). > I would also take a look at lsof, tracing the pids > > Then there is iotop if you have it. Hmm, I thought I'd tried that, but since it's still not installed on that machine I must not have. Going to investigate that with an eye on what I was trying to do. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # As we enjoy great Advantages from the # Inventions of others we should be glad of an # Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, # and this we should do freely and generously. # -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), on his refusal to patent his inventions.