Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:41:12 +0300 | From | Muli Ben-Yehuda <> | Subject | Re: Need help tracing regular write activity in 5 s interval |
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:21:20PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote: > Matthias Andree wrote:
> > 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).
> This thread may be of interest: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101600745431992&w=2 > > It's very awkward to analyse things like this at present. > For user -> kernel you could use something like syscalltrack.
Just a short note to mention that if you want to try and trace this activity with syscalltrack, you will want to grab the latest cvs version - I commited read(2)/write(2) support a few hours ago.
Hope this helps, Muli. -- Sterday 13 Forelithe 7466
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