Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says,
> sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush
> because it is a new process everytime.

Have you tried strace with the "-f" option and friends (-o, -ff)?

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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