Re: unknown io writes in 2.6.16

dean gaudet
2006-05-12T17:17:21Z

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Mark Hedges wrote:

> Just a wishlist that process IO could be monitored. I hate to
> say it but ctl-alt-esc in W2K can monitor io by process, and
> that's really useful. (I will never go back though.)

/etc/init.d/klogd stop
echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
/sbin/klogd -n -f -

watch lots of spew

^C
echo 0 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
/etc/init.d/klogd start

that will tell you a lot of stuff. it will probably lead you to a process
or two as culprits... use strace(8) to attach to those and get more
specific information.

now... share with me how to do this on windoze? :) i'm trying to get rid
of the last write or two on my laptop...

-dean