Lubos Vrbka wrote: > i sometimes see the following happenning on my notebook. every few > seconds, i can hear a tick from the harddrive. it seems, that some > process writes just a little bit to disk and the heads are immediately > parked. the sound is quite annoying. it doesn't happen all the time, > just sometimes. > > for example today. memory almost free, swap completely free, small load, > psi, thunderbird and opera running. > > do you have any idea what could be causing this? or is there any way to > see which processes are accessing the disk in every moment? Yes, echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump Note that this will make klogd log all processes that read/write to disk, which can have fun results since klogd writes to disk in doing so. You can also install laptop-mode-tools and use the lm-profiler program. -- see shy jo
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