On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:26:47PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > Hi all! > > I need a tool for displaying which file is written to disk. > Actually I need to find out what is causing disk activity on a > machine, where all but the very necessary processes have been killed > and still there is some disk activity. > > "iostat 1" shows a few written blocks every few 10s of seconds. > > # ps -A > PID TTY TIME CMD > 1 ? 00:00:00 init > 2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0 > 3 ? 00:00:00 events/0 > 4 ? 00:00:00 khelper > 5 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0 > 6 ? 00:00:00 pdflush > 7 ? 00:00:00 pdflush > 9 ? 00:00:00 aio/0 > 8 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0 > 10 ? 00:00:00 kseriod > 11 ? 00:00:00 kjournald > 458 tty2 00:00:00 getty > 459 tty3 00:00:00 getty > 460 tty4 00:00:00 getty > 461 tty5 00:00:00 getty > 462 tty6 00:00:00 getty > 8674 tty1 00:00:00 bash > 8737 tty1 00:00:00 ps > > Swap is deactivated with "swapoff -a". > So there should be no process which writes to disk, but still: a few > blocks every few 10s of seconds. > How can I find out which file or what is written to disk ? > (I know "filemon", but that is for kernel 2.4 only. I need something > for kernel 2.6) > > Thanks a lot & best regards, > Hannes. I reckon it's kjournald updating your journal. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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