What Process is using all of my disk IO [closed]
If I use "top" I can see what CPU is busy and what process is using all of my CPU.
If I use "iostat -x" I can see what drive is busy.
But how do I see what process is using all of the drive's throughput?
You're looking for iotop (assuming you've got kernel >2.6.20 and Python 2.5). Failing that, you're looking into hooking into the filesystem. I recommend the former.
To find out which processes in state 'D' (waiting for disk response) are currently running:
while true; do date; ps aux | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done
or
watch -n1 -d "ps axu | awk '{if (\$8==\"D\") {print \$0}}'"
Wed Aug 29 13:00:46 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:47 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:48 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:49 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:50 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:51 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:52 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:53 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:55 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:56 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:57 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:58 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:59 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:00 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:01 CLT 2012
root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 3:07 \_ [kdmflush]
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:02 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:01:03 CLT 2012
root 321 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D May28 4:25 \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
As you can see from the result, the jdb2/dm-0-8 (ext4 journal process), and kdmflush are constantly block your Linux.
For more details this URL could be helpful: Linux Wait-IO Problem
atop also works well and installs easily even on older CentOS 5.x systems which can't run iotop. Hit d to show disk details, ? for help.
ATOP - mybox 2014/09/08 15:26:00 ------ 10s elapsed
PRC | sys 0.33s | user 1.08s | | #proc 161 | #zombie 0 | clones 31 | | #exit 16 |
CPU | sys 4% | user 11% | irq 0% | idle 306% | wait 79% | | steal 1% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 2% | user 8% | irq 0% | idle 11% | cpu000 w 78% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 1% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 98% | cpu001 w 0% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 1% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 99% | cpu003 w 0% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
cpu | sys 0% | user 1% | irq 0% | idle 99% | cpu002 w 0% | | steal 0% | guest 0% |
CPL | avg1 2.09 | avg5 2.09 | avg15 2.09 | | csw 54184 | intr 33581 | | numcpu 4 |
MEM | tot 8.0G | free 81.9M | cache 2.9G | dirty 0.8M | buff 174.7M | slab 305.0M | | |
SWP | tot 2.0G | free 2.0G | | | | | vmcom 8.4G | vmlim 6.0G |
LVM | Group00-root | busy 85% | read 0 | write 30658 | KiB/w 4 | MBr/s 0.00 | MBw/s 11.98 | avio 0.28 ms |
DSK | xvdb | busy 85% | read 0 | write 23706 | KiB/w 5 | MBr/s 0.00 | MBw/s 11.97 | avio 0.36 ms |
NET | transport | tcpi 2705 | tcpo 2008 | udpi 36 | udpo 43 | tcpao 14 | tcppo 45 | tcprs 1 |
NET | network | ipi 2788 | ipo 2072 | ipfrw 0 | deliv 2768 | | icmpi 7 | icmpo 20 |
NET | eth0 ---- | pcki 2344 | pcko 1623 | si 1455 Kbps | so 781 Kbps | erri 0 | erro 0 | drpo 0 |
NET | lo ---- | pcki 423 | pcko 423 | si 88 Kbps | so 88 Kbps | erri 0 | erro 0 | drpo 0 |
NET | eth1 ---- | pcki 22 | pcko 26 | si 3 Kbps | so 5 Kbps | erri 0 | erro 0 | drpo 0 |
PID RDDSK WRDSK WCANCL DSK CMD 1/1
9862 0K 53124K 0K 98% java
358 0K 636K 0K 1% jbd2/dm-0-8
13893 0K 192K 72K 0% java
1699 0K 60K 0K 0% syslogd
4668 0K 24K 0K 0% zabbix_agentd
This clearly shows java pid 9862 is the culprit.