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Old 08-04-2010
Diagnose high disk write IO

Hi, say for example if there is high disk write IO in one disk (detected from NMON), how to we identify what processes is writing on that particular disk?
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Old 08-05-2010
for filesystems
man fuser
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Old 08-05-2010
works with block devices too

oracle asm disks or raw lvs for example

Code:
fuser /dev/rhdiskxx

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Old 08-05-2010
Okay, I will try to use that. Thanks.
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