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SubjectRe: Need help tracing regular write activity in 5 s interval
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.
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