[SunHELP] finding the file with that is causing i/o %busy to reach 95%

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Oct 12 13:00:27 CDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:56:15AM -0400, Grindell, Joan M. wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> 	Our sar reports are showing that one of our disks Is 95% busy.  How
> can I narrow this down to find out which file/s are the factor in incurring
> this high rate of busy.

I'd start by using lsof to see what processes are accessing that disk.


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