Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 17:12:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | Mark Hedges <> | Subject | Re: unknown io writes in 2.6.16 |
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On Fri, 12 May 2006, dean gaudet wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Mark Hedges wrote: > > > Just a wishlist that process IO could be monitored. I hate to > > say it but ctl-alt-esc in W2K can monitor io by process, and > > that's really useful. (I will never go back though.) > > /etc/init.d/klogd stop > echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump > /sbin/klogd -n -f - > > watch lots of spew > > ^C > echo 0 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump > /etc/init.d/klogd start > > that will tell you a lot of stuff. it will probably lead you to a process > or two as culprits... use strace(8) to attach to those and get more > specific information. > > now... share with me how to do this on windoze? :) i'm trying to get rid > of the last write or two on my laptop...
Cool, thanks, I'll check this out. It's actually about 12k every 5 seconds, not 12 bytes. Seems excessive for atime updates.
In W2K at any rate, ctl-shift-esc to get the task manager. Processes tab. View Menu > Select Columns. Sort by column.
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