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From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: Matt Garman <matthew.garman@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux disk access when idle
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:01:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8ED2FC.2070700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821165935.GA18915@sewage>

On 08/21/2009 12:59 PM, Matt Garman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:45:45AM +1200, Richard Scobie wrote:
>    
>> Matt Garman wrote:
>>      
>>> So what I'm trying to figure out is, what is causing the disk
>>> access?  It could be any one of:
>>>
>>>      - Kernel
>>>      - RAID subsystem (i.e. md)
>>>      - XFS filesystem
>>>      - NFS
>>>      - Samba
>>>      - ???
>>>        
>> Are you running smartd? It polls the drives every 30minutes.
>>      
> I was running smartd, until I received your post :)
>
> Unfortunately, this does not help keep the heads parked any longer.
>
> Nonetheless, thank you for the hint.
>
> Matt
>
>
>    
I think that you can use blktrace to see who is issuing the IO's that 
spin up your drives....

ric



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 16:35 linux disk access when idle Matt Garman
2009-08-20 18:45 ` Richard Scobie
2009-08-21 16:59   ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 17:01     ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2009-08-22 21:04       ` Matt Garman
2009-08-23 18:23         ` Bill Davidsen
2009-08-26 19:45         ` Matt Garman
2009-08-22  6:33     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-08-21  6:42 ` Henry, Andrew
2009-08-21  8:17   ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-08-21 16:35     ` Foster_Brian
2009-08-21 17:31       ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 17:22   ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 22:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-08-21 23:10   ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 23:13     ` Carl A. Cook
2009-08-22  1:41       ` berk walker
2009-08-22  2:07         ` John Robinson
2009-08-22  4:28           ` Richard Scobie
2009-08-22  5:04     ` Tapani Tarvainen
2009-08-22  6:37       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-08-24 18:07       ` Billy Crook
2009-08-22  5:02 ` Kyle Liddell

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