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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: yang.y.yi@gmail.com
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, matthltc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3
Date: 25 Mar 2006 18:16:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764m2i08f.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c4443230603240614m5f495340y9dc6ccc45e1e45b4@mail.gmail.com>


yang.y.yi@gmail.com writes:

> the filesystem events connector is small and has low overhead, it only
> focuses on activities in the filesystem, so I think it should be an option
> for those users which just concerns events in the filesystem. audit dose do
> this, but it is complicated and overhead is big, I believe the filesystem
> events connector is useful, but it maybe need to be improved further.

Would this be a good tool to tell me why I hear my hard drive stutter
periodically? This is above the regular buffer flushing. 

I'm curious what application is causing this file i/o since I have plenty of
free RAM so the only reason it would be hitting disk is if something is
calling fsync gratuitously.

-- 
greg


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-25 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-24  3:27 [2.6.16 PATCH] Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3 Yi Yang
2006-03-24  6:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24  7:06   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-24  7:23     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-24  7:29       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-24  7:42         ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-24  7:52           ` CaT
2006-03-24  7:55             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24  8:08       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-24  8:14         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24  8:16           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-24 14:20           ` yang.y.yi
2006-03-24 14:14     ` yang.y.yi
2006-03-24 14:25       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-25  5:37         ` Yi Yang
2006-03-25 23:16       ` Greg Stark [this message]
2006-03-26  7:14         ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-03-24 14:24   ` yang.y.yi
2006-03-24 14:28     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24 15:44       ` James Morris
2006-03-24 21:13         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-24  8:05 ` [2.6.16 PATCH] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-24  8:20   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-24  8:25     ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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