I have tested on Feisty. This is the output if I stop syslogd beforehand. Wtf is going on with pdflush? I have 768mb of RAM and only 1/3 is in use, from what I understand that thing is there to flush processes to the hard drive? Oh yeah, and my computer was completely idle while doing the tests.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ./top_io.pl Sleeping for 5 minutes to gather disk usage information... nautilus(30456): Dirtied Inodes: 2 kjournald(3672): Writes: 28 dmesg(726): Dirtied Inodes: 18 cron(723): Dirtied Inodes: 5 epiphany(725): Dirtied Inodes: 2 epiphany(605): Dirtied Inodes: 2 kjournald(2209): Writes: 61 perl(726): Dirtied Inodes: 3 sh(723): Dirtied Inodes: 2 sh(724): Dirtied Inodes: 1 run-parts(724): Dirtied Inodes: 1 cron(722): Dirtied Inodes: 20 perl(588): Dirtied Inodes: 1 pdflush(137): Writes: 442 And this is the output if I don't stop it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ./top_io.pl Sleeping for 5 minutes to gather disk usage information... dmesg(601): Dirtied Inodes: 18 dhclient3(596): Dirtied Inodes: 1 maxlifetime(594): Dirtied Inodes: 1 find(591): Dirtied Inodes: 1 dhclient-script(597):Dirtied Inodes: 1 avahi-autoipd(600): Dirtied Inodes: 2 sh(590): Dirtied Inodes: 2 sh(595): Dirtied Inodes: 1 syslogd(4304): Writes: 2 syslogd(4304): Dirtied Inodes: 175 run-parts(597): Dirtied Inodes: 1 gconfd-2(30408): Dirtied Inodes: 1 sh(592): Dirtied Inodes: 1 xargs(595): Dirtied Inodes: 8 dhclient-script(598):Dirtied Inodes: 1 call-dhclient-s(596):Dirtied Inodes: 2 cron(590): Dirtied Inodes: 5 perl(601): Reads: 1 perl(601): Dirtied Inodes: 3 pdflush(137): Writes: 384 pdflush(137): Dirtied Inodes: 47 run-parts(599): Dirtied Inodes: 1 dhclient-script(600):Dirtied Inodes: 1 kjournald(3672): Writes: 33 dhclient-script(596):Dirtied Inodes: 20 sed(594): Dirtied Inodes: 8 maxlifetime(592): Dirtied Inodes: 1 kjournald(2209): Writes: 635 cron(589): Dirtied Inodes: 20 sh(591): Dirtied Inodes: 1 -- hard disk being accessed every 4 sec. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17878 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
