In absense of iotop which command is most appropriate for get i/o bounded process

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Suggest me best way to list io bounded process. I know iotop is best way to get list but want any alternate option since my system showing a large number of D state process.

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 07:52

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You can check the IO usage of any process by looking at the /proc/[pid]/io file. Example:

$ cat /proc/1775/io
read_bytes: 4366336
write_bytes: 45056
cancelled_write_bytes: 229376

answered Apr 18 '11 at 07:52

dogbane

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iotop now requires NET_ADMIN capability (or sudo/root) to be run, so this is a great alternative than using setcap cap_net_admin+ep /usr/sbin/iotop I guess.. thx!! – Aquarius Power Jul 04 '13 at 22:16
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You must actually set the cap_net_admin on python for this to work. setcap cap_net_admin+ep /usr/bin/python2.7 for example. – gam3 Aug 22 '14 at 11:42

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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Duplicated of: Linux - How can I see what's waiting for disk IO see that URL for a simple solution.

And you can enable disk I/O logging putting 1 into /proc/sys/vm/block_dump. then tail -f /var/log/syslog will give you reads and writes (process, pid, operation, blocks and device). Do not forget to return /proc/sys/vm/block_dump to zero when you're done.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 06:49

poisonbit

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It's the kern.log and/or debug file on Debian based distributions. – fab Apr 18 '11 at 08:48

In absense of iotop which command is most appropriate for get i/o bounded process

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