From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: who is writing to disk
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:45:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001210124553.A154@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.21.0012072119450.9251-100000@lennon.cc.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.21.0012072119450.9251-100000@lennon.cc.gatech.edu>; from Zhiruo Cao on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:25:03PM -0500
Hi!
> I found a process constantly writing to disk when I run gnome as desktop
> and while the whole system is idle. I don't find anything in the log
> file, and I don't see anything updated in my home dir or in /tmp. Does it
> sound like bdflush is writing? But I don't hear the disk access when I
> am not running gnome.
>
> My question then is, is there a (monitoring) tool that can tell me who is
> writing to disk? Or how I configure the kernel to know that?
Access time updates? Try mounting with noatime.
Pavel
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2000-12-08 2:25 who is writing to disk Zhiruo Cao
2000-12-08 13:50 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-10 11:45 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2000-12-08 8:29 richardj_moore
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