Finding what's causing I/O

Francisco Reyes lists at natserv.com
Fri Sep 23 05:06:01 PDT 2005


On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote:

>> Is there a way to find out which program(s) are causing
>> the I/O?
>
> ktrace(8); you can use it to trace all descendants of 'init'.

Looking at the man page it's non-obvious how to use it (to me).


Specially it seems one needs to indicate a pid or a command. How do I 
trace all programs?


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