Wiki Blog/2010-02-15

Show Processes waiting for I/O in Linux

When dealing with low powered (virtual) machines, processes waiting for I/O can indicate what's happening:

watch -n 3 "(ps aux | awk '\$8 ~ /D/  { print \$0 }')"

Source: http://serverfault.com/questions/61510/linux-how-can-i-see-whats-waiting-for-disk-io