The following is a demonstration of the rwtop program,

By default it will refresh the screen every 5 seconds,

# rwtop

2005 Jul 24 01:00:43, load: 1.02, app_r: 8 KB, app_w: 19 KB

UID PID PPID CMD D BYTES

0 20320 20347 bash R 10

0 20320 20347 bash W 95

100 20317 20314 sshd R 650

100 20317 20314 sshd W 733

0 2365 20320 ls W 1300

0 2364 20320 vi R 2323

0 2365 20320 ls R 2485

100 20334 20331 sshd R 3010

100 20334 20331 sshd W 3729

0 2364 20320 vi W 14128

In the above output, we can see that a "vi" process wrote 14 Kbytes and

read 2 Kbytes.

In the following example, we print the top 5 processes in a scrolling

output by using "-C" to not clear the screen,

# rwtop -C -t5

Tracing... Please wait.

2005 Jul 24 01:03:27, load: 1.05, app_r: 261 KB, app_w: 348 KB

UID PID PPID CMD D BYTES

0 2381 20320 svcs W 5801

0 9 1 svc.configd R 115712

0 2380 20320 find W 140003

100 20334 20331 sshd R 150740

100 20334 20331 sshd W 210773

2005 Jul 24 01:03:32, load: 1.07, app_r: 110 KB, app_w: 233 KB

UID PID PPID CMD D BYTES

100 20317 20314 sshd R 419

100 20317 20314 sshd W 468

0 2382 20320 find W 110720

100 20334 20331 sshd R 112835

100 20334 20331 sshd W 128175

2005 Jul 24 01:03:37, load: 1.07, app_r: 6 KB, app_w: 7 KB

UID PID PPID CMD D BYTES

0 2383 20320 df W 1154

0 2385 20320 ls W 1300

0 2385 20320 ls R 2485

100 20334 20331 sshd R 3929

100 20334 20331 sshd W 4339

^C