Re: unknown io writes in 2.6.16

From: Erik Mouw
Date: Thu May 11 2006 - 11:22:21 EST


On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:54:43PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
> Just a wishlist that process IO could be monitored. I hate to
> say it but ctl-alt-esc in W2K can monitor io by process, and
> that's really useful. (I will never go back though.)

IIRC this can be done with Jens Axboe's blktrace. It got merged in
2.6.17, enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE and get the blktrace userspace
tools from git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/blktrace.git .


Erik

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