Messages in this thread |  | | From | richardj_moore@uk ... | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:29:01 +0000 | Subject | Re: who is writing to disk |
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One option, if there's no bespoke mechanism is to use DPorbes and or Linux Trace Toolkit to set up a trace of file system apis. You could also start with strace.
Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (PISC).
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Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu> on 08/12/2000 02:25:03
Please respond to Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu Subject: who is writing to disk
Hello,
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?
Thanks!
Joe
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