busy disk

[thufir]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:45:45 -0500, Preston Hagar wrote:


> Then next time you see a 100% busy or disk access seems to be high, run
> 
> sudo iotop
> 
> It should by default put the program causing all the io at the top and
> at least narrow down if it is Thunderbird or a browser or something
> else.
>  Then you can start looking in why that specific program would be having
> high io usage.


Excellent.  I'm just waiting for the system to go berserk again. 



thanks,

Thufir