Disk activity

[Eric Wood]

----- 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