Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?
On 14 Jan 2006 13:19:09 GMT, Matthias Pfeifer <pfemat@web.de> wrote:
> Thank you all for your time. From my point
> of view the case is settled. "noatime" did
> a nice job and as a side-effect i just
> readjusted my understanding of journaling-fs
> to reality ;-)
>
> It would also be nice to get the source of
> the reads that are forcing atime-updates,
> but i did not yet find a way to do so.
> I suspect lsof to be of help here or kerneltop.
> Both are wild guesses. so hints are still welcome...
>
> Matthias Pfeifer
>
>
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echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
then open up an xterm and do: tail -f /var/log/kern.log
and wait for activity.
just don't forget to turn off block_dump ;-)
--
Noah Dain
"Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing
to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM
Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25
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