Hi!
> I found a process constantly writing to disk when I run gnome as desktop
> and while the whole system is idle. I don't find anything in the log
> file, and I don't see anything updated in my home dir or in /tmp. Does it
> sound like bdflush is writing? But I don't hear the disk access w
> My question then is, is there a (monitoring) tool that can tell me who is
> writing to disk? Or how I configure the kernel to know that?
Monitoring tool - none that I know of. FInd can do a search and find all very
new files.
Most likely it's a combination of cruddy CD-ROM drives and magicdev
One option, if there's no bespoke mechanism is to use DPorbes and or Linux
Trace Toolkit to set up a trace of file system apis. You could also start
with strace.
Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (PISC).
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux
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