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surki on Oct 26, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never ...

I use something like this to watch the processes that are running or waiting for IO

  watch -n 1 ps -eo pid,ppid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN,stat,command r

nitrogen on Oct 26, 2010 [–]

Nice. However, it doesn't account for activity during the gap between samples, while sorting by CPU usage in top or by I/O usage in iotop does.

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