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How to tell what is creating disk I/O?

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forum:Windowsfanboy 14 years ago

Hi all. Every so often I see that I am getting massive disk I/O spikes. I'm not really sure what is creating this. Is there a way to see what is causing disk I/O, kind of like the ps aux command shows mem usage? I'm running a LAMP + Minecraft server +Seedbox. Here's a screenshot of the graphs.

Monthly average: ~~![](<URL url=)http://imgur.com/IT8Lr.png" />

24 hour average:~~![](" />~~~~

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forum:hybinet 14 years ago

iotop shows the programs that is causing the most I/O at the moment.

It usually doesn't come with the default images, so install it first, e.g. apt-get install iotop.

forum:ruchirablog 14 years ago

dude you are running seedbox = disk + network IO

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