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
Office: (+44) (0)1962-817072, Mobile: (+44) (0)7768-298183
IBM UK Ltd, MP135 Galileo Centre, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK
Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu> on 08/12/2000 02:25:03
Please respond to Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
cc: zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: who is writing to disk
Hello,
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 when I
am not running gnome.
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?
Thanks!
Joe
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