On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:34:39PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> I've got two systems with a constantly high rate of disk I/O that sometimes 
> seems to be overwhelmed from it.  Before trying to decide if a hardware 
> upgrade will help, I'd like to figure out which processes generate the load.
> 
> I've found a couple scripts named iotop which appear to produce what I would 
> be interested in, but they appear to require Solaris or Linux. 
> 
> Has someone ported over one of them, or would have a suggestion how to go 
> about writing a custom dtrace script to gather this kind of information?
> 
> I can successfully run a couple of sample dtrace scripts on these 8-stable 
> amd64 boxes.
> 

Can't 'top -mio' do the job?

regards,
Bapt

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