What's using the disk

David Madore (madore@clipper.ens.fr)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:55:41 +0100 (MET)


Hi,

Some process or some such thing seems to be writing on my disk small
quantities of data (the statistics collected by the aic7xxx driver
tell me they're in the 1-2K range) at regular intervals (every 9
seconds, to be precise). This is annoying because I want to sleep :-)
I'm trying to figure out what it is. Does there exist some way I can
ask the kernel to tell me what called a particular disk write? Or
would it be feasible to patch the kernel to do such at thing?
(E.g. by maintaining a file in the /proc directory where the causes of
the last disk reads and writes would be kept.)

Thanks,

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     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@ens.fr,
     http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/)

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