What Process is using all of my disk IO
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If I use "top" I can see what CPU is busy and what process is using all of my CPU.
If I use "iostat -x" I can see what drive is busy.
But how do I see what process is using all of the drive's throughput?
Linux Solutions
Solution 1 - Linux
You're looking for iotop (assuming you've got kernel >2.6.20 and Python 2.5). Failing that, you're looking into hooking into the filesystem. I recommend the former.
Solution 2 - Linux
To find out which processes in state 'D' (waiting for disk response) are currently running:
while true; do date; ps aux | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done
or
watch -n1 -d "ps axu | awk '{if (\$8==\"D\") {print \$0}}'"
Wed Aug 29 13:00:46 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:47 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:48 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:49 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:50 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:51 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:52 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:53 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:55 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:56 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:57 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:58 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:59 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:00 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:01 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:02 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:01:03 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
As you can see from the result, the jdb2/dm-0-8 (ext4 journal process), and kdmflush are constantly block your Linux.
For more details this URL could be helpful: Linux Wait-IO Problem
Solution 3 - Linux
atop also works well and installs easily even on older CentOS 5.x systems which can't run iotop. Hit d to show disk details, ? for help.
ATOP - mybox 2014/09/08 15:26:00 ------ 10s elapsed
PRC | sys 0.33s | user 1.08s | | #proc 161 | #zombie 0 | clones 31 | | #exit 16 |
CPU | sys 4% | user 11% | irq 0% | idle 306% | wait 79% | | steal 1% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 2% | user 8% | irq 0% | idle 11% | cpu000 w 78% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 1% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 98% | cpu001 w 0% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 1% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 99% | cpu003 w 0% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 0% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 99% | cpu002 w 0% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
CPL | avg1 2.09 | avg5 2.09 | avg15 2.09 | | csw 54184 | intr 33581 | | numcpu 4 |
MEM | tot 8.0G | free 81.9M | cache 2.9G | dirty 0.8M | buff 174.7M | slab 305.0M | | |
SWP | tot 2.0G | free 2.0G | | | | | vmcom 8.4G | vmlim 6.0G |
LVM | Group00-root | busy 85% | read 0 | write 30658 | KiB/w 4 | MBr/s 0.00 | MBw/s 11.98 | avio 0.28 ms |
DSK | xvdb | busy 85% | read 0 | write 23706 | KiB/w 5 | MBr/s 0.00 | MBw/s 11.97 | avio 0.36 ms |
NET | transport | tcpi 2705 | tcpo 2008 | udpi 36 | udpo 43 | tcpao 14 | tcppo 45 | tcprs 1 |
NET | network | ipi 2788 | ipo 2072 | ipfrw 0 | deliv 2768 | | icmpi 7 | icmpo 20 |
NET | eth0 ---- | pcki 2344 | pcko 1623 | si 1455 Kbps | so 781 Kbps | erri 0 | erro 0 | drpo 0 |
NET | lo ---- | pcki 423 | pcko 423 | si 88 Kbps | so 88 Kbps | erri 0 | erro 0 | drpo 0 |
NET | eth1 ---- | pcki 22 | pcko 26 | si 3 Kbps | so 5 Kbps | erri 0 | erro 0 | drpo 0 |
PID RDDSK WRDSK WCANCL DSK CMD 1/1
9862 0K 53124K 0K 98% java
358 0K 636K 0K 1% jbd2/dm-0-8
13893 0K 192K 72K 0% java
1699 0K 60K 0K 0% syslogd
4668 0K 24K 0K 0% zabbix_agentd
This clearly shows java pid 9862 is the culprit.
Solution 4 - Linux
TL;DR
If you can use iotop, do so. Else this might help.
Use top, then use these shortcuts:
d 1 = set refresh time from 3 to 1 second
1 = show stats for each cpu, not cumulated
This has to show values > 1.0 wa for at least one core - if there are no diskwaits, there is simply no IO load and no need to look further. Significant loads usually start > 15.0 wa.
x = highlight current sort column
< and > = change sort column
R = reverse sort order
Chose 'S', the process status column. Reverse the sort order so the 'R' (running) processes are shown on top. If you can spot 'D' processes (waiting for disk), you have an indicator what your culprit might be.
Solution 5 - Linux
iotop with the -a flag:
-a, --accumulated show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth
Solution 6 - Linux
For KDE Users you can use 'ctrl-esc' top call up a system actrivity monitor and there is I/O activities charts with process id and name.
I don't have permissions to upload image, due to 'new user status' but you can check out the image below. It has a column for IO read and write.
(source: kde.org)
Solution 7 - Linux
Have you considered lsof (list open files)?