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Comment by surki | Hacker News Reader

I use something like this to watch the processes that are running or waiting for IO

  watch -n 1 ps -eo pid,ppid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN,stat,command r

Nice. However, it doesn't account for activity during the gap between samples, while sorting by CPU usage in top or by I/O usage in iotop does.