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I need to second this request. Being able to view disk i/o stats per process is very important as it would greatly help newbies, advanced users and developers alike to track down what i/o hogging processes are causing their ubuntu systems to slow down. This happens more than people think, the recent spate of bugs/forum posts related to trackerd is just one example of how top/vmstat/iostat et al are useless for such a task.
People are asking for this capability all the time, see
http://
http://
http://
as just some examples of users screaming for this functionality. While I'm an avid Ubuntu user myself (I completely wiped my M$ Windoze partition btw) I think it's pretty sad that all other OS's have that capability built-in but ubuntu doesn't, and all it takes to fix is to turn on a simple kernel config option...
BTW, I got alerted to this by an excellent thread on linuxquestions
http://
which mentions that the latest version of collectl also supporting the "new" i/o /proc interface (not in the repos yet, see bug# 135037)