cause of IO wait

[der.hans]

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
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