On May 14 2007 14:57, Dave Jones wrote: > >I was curious why my firewall box never spins down its disk. >Given it rarely writes stuff to logs, it's odd that it always >seems to have something to write out. >killing syslogd, and enabling /proc/sys/vm/block_dump >gets me a periodic spew in /proc/kmsg like..
Perhaps it would help if you use `fuser` to see who's got open files for read and/or write, then strace all processes and see who does reads/writes? Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/