[wplug] periodic writing to disk

[Bryon Gill]

You should try the lsof utility to see what files are being opened. Off the top 
of my head I'd think of filesystem journaling, some sort of service logging, and 
swap as potential culprits.




On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> My gkrellm is telling me that some process is writing to the
> hard disk every 5-10 seconds. I can't figure out what it is,
> and that makes me wonder. Is there a way to figure out what
> process is responsible?
>
> I've looked at top, ps aux, and done 'tail -f' on
> /var/log/everything.log, but haven't found any culprits yet.
>
> Running Archlinux x86_64.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions-
>
> SFK
>
>