RE: Monitoring disk access
On 02-Aug-2002 Vincent Bernat wrote:
> waking it up from sleep and eating unnecessary my battery. Is there
> some program which could log (on a tmpfs of course ! ;-) ) any disk
> access with timestamp, file (well if it doesn't work at filesystem
> level, that doesn't hurt) and PID of the application for every disk
> access ?
Another approach might be syscalltrack:
> $ apt-cache show syscalltrack
> Package: syscalltrack
> [...]
>
> Description: Track system calls across the Linux system
> syscalltrack allows the user to track invocations of system calls across
> the whole system and not only a single process as strace does. The user
> specifies rules on what to track and what to do when an event occurs.
> .
> This package provides the utilities needed to control the syscalltrack module.
> You need to get a syscalltrack-module package or build one yourself from the
> syscalltrack-source package.
I did not use this package yet, so I don't know for sure if it
helps. It is just an idea which might be worth trying.
Regards
Florian
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