tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-05 01:45, Joe Schmoe <non_secure at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
> > : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10
>
> (snip)
>
> > The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are many and I don't
> > have the time right now to try porting the "io mode" stuff to
> > RELENG_4, but if you cannot do it yourself I might find a bit of
> > time this weekend.
>
> Well, porting it is way beyond my abilities, so yes, if it is not too
> much trouble, that would be great.  Alternatively, is there any other
> way to get this information in 4.x - perhaps without top, etc. ?

Not sure if you can get statistics per process.  `systat -vmstat' is a
nice way of getting some bits of information, but AFAICT they're
system-wide -- not per process.