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How to know recently updated files
If I run iostat -x 1 I saw ocassionally large 5MB to 10MB writes.
What files are being written?
I want to check the recently created files with size over 5MB for example.
How would I do so?
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Determine which process is taking most of disk bandwidth?
When the HDD indicator is blinking (for a long period), how could I know which process is taking most disk bandwidth?
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script for logging all the stats for a particular process
I want to monitor CPU usage, disk read/write usage for a particular process, say ./myprocess.
To monitor CPU top command seems to be a nice option and for read and write iotop seems to be a handy ...
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Make iotop show only the most disk-intensive item
My laptop (no VM, just plain Ubuntu with encrypted home) freezes for 3 minutes a few times per day. During these 3 minutes, the disk LED indicates intense disk activity, and I can't even move the ...
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performance monitoring
Is there some performace monitoring tool which would run in background gathering info about all system activity? Somethimes my system (Arch linux, 32 bit) slows down terribly and the top utility ...
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How can I monitor disk I/O in a particular directory?
I've got a few processes with a known name that all write to files in a single directory. I'd like to log the number of disk block reads and writes over a period (not just file access) to test whether ...
