Re: how to find out which program is using the harddrive

2005-03-19 Thread Ben Hill
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:07 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Tamas K Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even though I don't have sleep on my powerbook yet, I am OK with just > > closing the lid and letting the screen sleep. However, something is > > using the hard disk about every 2 seconds... How c

Re: how to find out which program is using the harddrive

2005-03-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Tamas K Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I don't have sleep on my powerbook yet, I am OK with just > closing the lid and letting the screen sleep. However, something is > using the hard disk about every 2 seconds... How can I find out what > it is? echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump;

how to find out which program is using the harddrive

2005-03-16 Thread Tamas K Papp
Even though I don't have sleep on my powerbook yet, I am OK with just closing the lid and letting the screen sleep. However, something is using the hard disk about every 2 seconds... How can I find out what it is? I checked the usual suspects (stopped the firewall from logging everything, etc),