Re: How to track hard drive seeks?

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

servis@purdue.edu writes:

> Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are
> seeking the hard drive?  Some program, system call, or something is
> causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or
> two.

Try using strace to see what all the daemons are doing.  Most will
just be sitting there in a select or accept waiting for a connection
somewhere, or waiting for a few minutes to see if something's changed

Other programs keep accessing files, which changes the access time and
means the disk needs to be updated.

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