[Info-vax] Is there the equivalent of $ MONITOR PROCESS/TOPD on other OSes?

[Chris Townley]

On 25/05/2023 19:24, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On my Mac, sometimes one of the external Time Machine drives just starts making noise non-stop. I have to dismount and power-cycle it. But I wonder what process is writing to it or reading from it. The macOS Activity Monitor doesn't have it. And I don't think the Unix 'top'  command has it either. Not that I could find, anyway.
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> Does _any_ other OS have this feature, $ MONITOR PROC/TOPDIO
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> I ask here in the hopes of not having to explain MONITOR PROC/TOPDIO to people in other forums.
> 
> TIA.

The newer Windows task manager can, as can the related resource monitor, 
available from the performance tab.

The linux utility HTOP can view I/O by process. There is probably a 
version that can build on the mac.

   htop was originally developed by Hisham Muhammad.  Nowadays it is
   maintained by the community at <htop at groups.io>

Try https://htop.dev/


-- 
Chris