[Discuss] How can you tell which application exercises the disk a lot?

[Alan W. Irwin]

I installed the kde package on my new box, and since then I notice that the
disk light goes on every 2 seconds or so.  I am trying to track down which
(KDE) application is doing it so I can uninstall that package if possible.
I have never seen that behaviour from KDE before, but then I am usually much
more selective about what I install from KDE, and I now regret the
"shortcut" of installing the "kde" Debian package that sucks in most kde
applications.

"ps auxww" tells me there are many applications starting with a "k" that are
now running even though I don't have any KDE desktops actually running at
the time.  Is there some equivalent to "top" for disk usage so I can find
which of those KDE applications are the culprit?

Thanks in advance.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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