From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pol Subject: monitoring swap i/o Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:29:31 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: linux_milano@yahoo.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org I would like to be able to exactly monitor programs i/o in the swap area; 'top' does not seem to be the right tool as processes are sorted according to the total amount of swap space used, while i would like processes with high i/o activity (albeit in small amounts) to be highlighted. My case is with firefox and konqueror. They stay silently for hours, then i/o starts, as one can hear that typical noise from the disk and as it can be checked with 'vmstat'. Also i would like to locate programs more precisely, to tell which browser tab, which plugin has triggered that swapping. Any hints? Thank you -- Pol