Disk activity

[W. Guy Thomas]

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