On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:07:19AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have noflushd running for quite some time now. Works quite well, but not > perfectly yet. Sometimes the drive just suddenly spins on whil I'm not doing > anything. Is there any way to trace the process which did I/O at that time? > I know strace, tried it on almost all processes I think, but still I can't > find it. :-/ > > Any idea? Or should I go on stracing?..
No neat ideas I'm afraid but if you decide to go through with it please post your experiences back to the list. A program, 'dtop' perhaps, would be nice. I know 'atop' (ftp://ftp.ATComputing.nl/pub/tools/linux) tries: <<Unfortunately, the standard kernel does not maintain counters about the number of disk and network accesses issued per process.>> but the author hasn't posted his kernel-patches yet(?) I guess 'strace -p'ing is one way, very frequent sampling of all processes like 'top d 0' is another. Either way some programming and/or scripts will probably be needed. -- //Björnen, ngn på nerdtalk har ngn idé?
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