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As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -d 5 to track per-process disk I/O statistics with a 5 second sample (for example).

(I should add: you'll need to do that inside the guest to see the process)

As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -d 5 to track per-process disk I/O statistics with a 5 second sample (for example).

As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -d 5 to track per-process disk I/O statistics with a 5 second sample (for example).

(I should add: you'll need to do that inside the guest to see the process)

it should be `pidstat -d 5` to track disk IO stats
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edit approved Feb 8, 2012 at 0:10
Xupeng
edit approved Feb 8, 2012 at 0:10
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As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -rd 5 to track per-process IOdisk I/O statistics with a 5 second sample (for example).

As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -r 5 to track per-process IO with a 5 second sample (for example).

As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -d 5 to track per-process disk I/O statistics with a 5 second sample (for example).

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As well as iotop, if you've got a new enough version of sysstat (not default with CentOS 5, unfortunately), you can use pidstat -r 5 to track per-process IO with a 5 second sample (for example).