Re: Need help tracing regular write activity in 5 s interval

Kenneth Johansson
2002-06-02T16:12:13Z

On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 17:25, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > So: is there any trace software that can tell me "at 15:52:43.012345,
> > process 4321 marked 7 blocks dirty on device /dev/hda5" (or even more
> > detail so I can figure if it's just an atime update -- as with svscan --
> > or a write access)? And that is NOT to be attached to a specific process
> > (hint: strace is not an option).
>
> Problem: we'd have to do that using printk. printk issues another write
> call, which will mark things dirty. Issued is another printk, which marks
> things dirty and issues another printk...
>
> I suppose one write would become looped here?

Been there done that :)

I turned on debug output for jffs2 without changing klog/syslog to log
to a remote machine. Did not take long for the machine to get unusable.