Disk activity
W. Guy Thomas
mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sat Oct 23 04:28:29 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 21:34 -0400, Eric Wood wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Burger"
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Richard Emberson wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Using FC2 and have two ext3 disks.
> >> Every 5 seconds theres disk activity.
> >> What process is doing this? How can I catch it in action?
> >> Nothing out of the ordinary shows up in using "top" or "ps".
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> RME
>
> ext3 won't commit unless something really changed. Historically, there's
> been applications the continually poll the filesystem and causes a access
> time change, thus ext3 flushes a right or commit.
>
> It would be an applet in X, or something in cron that runs every seconds.
> You can strace -p <PID> each master process id and find out if that app is
> continually doing file i/o.
>
> The battery status applet was a polling application that never let the hard
> drive rest.
> -eric wood
>
this has been driving me nuts too, ok thanks for the tip in tracing
it...here goes... thanks.
=G
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