How to check which process is using up the most disk resources in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • How to check which process is using up the most disk resources in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
  • Is there a utility similar to 'dtrace' from Solaris?
  • How can we identify application IO patterns as they are sent to disk?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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