I need to second this request. Being able to view disk i/o stats per process is very important as it would greatly help newbies, advanced users and developers alike to track down what i/o hogging processes are causing their ubuntu systems to slow down. This happens more than people think, the recent spate of bugs/forum posts related to trackerd is just one example of how top/vmstat/iostat et al are useless for such a task.
People are asking for this capability all the time, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=646611 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=294555 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=396692 as just some examples of users screaming for this functionality. While I'm an avid Ubuntu user myself (I completely wiped my M$ Windoze partition btw) I think it's pretty sad that all other OS's have that capability built-in but ubuntu doesn't, and all it takes to fix is to turn on a simple kernel config option... BTW, I got alerted to this by an excellent thread on linuxquestions http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/how-to-enable- process-io-statistics-600777/#post2963872 which mentions that the latest version of collectl also supporting the "new" i/o /proc interface (not in the repos yet, see bug# 135037) -- please enable CONFIG_TASKSTATS, especially CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157191 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
