I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........rather annoying. Is this normal for 9.3, as 9.2 didn't do this on this box....same file system, etc. Fred -- "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!" Brought to you by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act(s) numerous Presidential Directives, etc.
The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 17:48 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........
How do you know? :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Sunday 22 May 2005 8:37 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 17:48 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........
How do you know? :-?
How do I know what? I hear the drive being written to. Fred -- "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!" Brought to you by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act(s) numerous Presidential Directives, etc.
Fred, On Sunday 22 May 2005 18:58, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Sunday 22 May 2005 8:37 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 17:48 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........
How do you know? :-?
How do I know what? I hear the drive being written to.
Why do you care? And why do you believe that activity can be associated with a single process? As I sit here logged in to a KDE session, there are 153 processes running (at one particular moment). I/O activity is to be expected.
Fred
RRS
The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 21:58 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 17:48 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........
How do you know? :-?
How do I know what? I hear the drive being written to.
Ok, ok. I suppose the led lights as well. I don't see that behaviour here, but that doesn't mean much. Many things could cause it... even watching the log files if you mount the partitions normally: each time a file is read, the atime timestamp is updated; thus I mount "noatime". Are you using kde? Close it, observe. Change to runlevel 3, observe. If still ocurring, start closing services one by one, and observing. I don't know if there is a way to "cat" which processes are writing to the disk in real time. Then, there are some settings related to powersavings in /etc/sysconfig/? that apply. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Monday 23 May 2005 3:21 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote: [snip]
How do I know what? I hear the drive being written to.
Ok, ok. I suppose the led lights as well.
No.....just hear the SATA drive.
I don't see that behaviour here, but that doesn't mean much. Many things could cause it... even watching the log files if you mount the partitions normally: each time a file is read, the atime timestamp is updated; thus I mount "noatime".
Nope.....can't find anything anywhere.
Are you using kde? Close it, observe. Change to runlevel 3, observe. If still ocurring, start closing services one by one, and observing.
'About the only way I think I'll find it.
I don't know if there is a way to "cat" which processes are writing to the disk in real time.
Not that I know of.
Then, there are some settings related to powersavings in /etc/sysconfig/? that apply.
All powersave is off. I wonder if there's something different in disk caching in 9.3 from 9.2. Fred -- "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!" Brought to you by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act(s) numerous Presidential Directives, etc.
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Carlos E. R.
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Fred A. Miller
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Randall R Schulz