On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 19:15 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > David Timms wrote: > > What tool can tell me why my hard disk light is essentially on, > > performing continuous access ? > > > > top doesn't seem to show the culprit since it mustn't use enough CPU. > > > > Fedora 9 i386 if it matters. > > > > Also, is there similar for network ? > > > Is there a tool which will allow me to track io by process? I can do it > by putting a printk in the kernel, rebuilding, and wading through MB of > logs, but what I want is a way to find out which process or kthread is > writing to my disk when the system is dead idle. > > Of course the logging operation causes disk i/o... so it's kind of ugly > to use. In the Old Days (tm) there used to be a utility called iostat, but it seems to have joined the 'eavenly choir eternal. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
