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

Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro
Wed Oct 13 02:17:35 CDT 2004


I think on Solaris 8, pfiles does something like lsof ...
Then you can use truss on the PID of the process which is causing the disk
activity.


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> 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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