[ale] Identify process hammering disk

[bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu (Brian Pitts)]

James Taylor <James.Taylor at ...> writes:
> 
> While investigating this I started looking for a tool to monitor disk activity
and relate it to a process, 
> but nothing stands out.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 

If the culprit is opening and closing a lot of files, something like

lsof > a
lsof > b
diff a b

might reveal it.