On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 21:34 -0400, Eric Wood wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Burger" > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Richard Emberson wrote: > > > >> > >> Using FC2 and have two ext3 disks. > >> Every 5 seconds theres disk activity. > >> What process is doing this? How can I catch it in action? > >> Nothing out of the ordinary shows up in using "top" or "ps". > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> RME > > ext3 won't commit unless something really changed. Historically, there's > been applications the continually poll the filesystem and causes a access > time change, thus ext3 flushes a right or commit. > > It would be an applet in X, or something in cron that runs every seconds. > You can strace -p <PID> each master process id and find out if that app is > continually doing file i/o. > > The battery status applet was a polling application that never let the hard > drive rest. > -eric wood > this has been driving me nuts too, ok thanks for the tip in tracing it...here goes... thanks. =G
