[wplug] periodic writing to disk

Zach netrek at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 00:58:53 EDT 2007


This progam was running find BTW.

Zach

On 9/28/07, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a similar problem, look in your cron dirctories, I had a
> tripwire type program running every X seconds and when I did top it
> wouldn't show up but I found it by looking through cron and running
> "ps auxw|grep foo" in a while loop then sure enough I caught it and
> after I removed it no more problems.
>
> Zach
>
> On 9/27/07, Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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