Bill,
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Bill Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just wanted to follow up on this issue I raised a few weeks ago.
>
> With help from several of you, I had all the information and tools
> I needed to start debugging my problem. Which of course meant that
> my problem disappeared!
>
> At one point my theory was that ksh93 was updating my .history file
> periodically. Well, it still does update my .history file at times
> when nothing else seems to be going on, but that's not the cause of
> the periodic disk accesses I was seeing. (Maybe someone else wants
> to track this down further but I'm ignoring it.)
>
> Another problem I've noticed is that thunderbird very frequently
> updates the panacea.dat file. Does anyone know what's in this file?
> If I take thunderbird offline, the updates become much less frequent,
> although they don't seem to stop entirely.
>
> Right now it seems most likely that thunderbird was the cause of the
> periodic disk accesses I was seeing.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
Will it help to aggregate ustack on writes from thunderbird.bin? E.g.
syscall::write:entry
/execname=="thunderbird.bin"/
{ @[fds[args[0], ustack() ] = count(); }
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