Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:45:53 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: who is writing to disk |
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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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