2009/11/30 John Nissley <jnissley@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > I have a Fedora 11 server running 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64. I recently > noticed that my hard drive light is on constantly and was wondering how I > can determine what is accessing the hard disk so much. After boot the hard > disk is acting normally for a few minutes to a few hours and then the hard > drive light is lit up constantly. > > I have tried ps -ef to see if there was anything running that I do not know > about and there is not. Is there any way for me to determine which process > is consistently using the hard disk? Yep, # yum install iotop # iotop Recent kernels include per-process IO accounting, so you should be able to tell what is waking up your disk by watching the iotop output. -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
