[ Thanks to Daniel
Kühl Lima for this link. ]
“In situations like that where are a lot of disk
activities, come the question “What now?”, how to
verify what is doing such a lot of disk access?“There are tools for that, like iostat and vmstat columns bi and
bo“Iostat is a tool that’s is very handy in cases like this
one, but his values interpretation and the way that the values are
on screen aren’t frendly.“For that, there’s a very handy tool, iotop, it have a
very nice CLI interface that show the I/O data. Utilize the very
own values that kernel pass throught and show us in a very elegant
style :)”