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Re: which process is writing to disk?



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.

I had something like this when someone was trying to brute-force my SSH
server. Every failure would generate an error in auth.log (and a click
from the hard drive.)

Took me a while to figure out where the weird noise was coming from.


-- 
George Borisov

DXSolutions Ltd

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