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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: monitor file system activity
From:       Michael Olbrich <michael-olbrich () web ! de>
Date:       2006-07-16 13:53:04
Message-ID: 20060716135304.GA6407 () creature ! apm ! etc ! tu-bs ! de
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Hi,

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:59:47PM -0400, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> When I run KDE my disk gets accessed every fraction of a second.  I
> would like to find out what is doing this.  I've been trying to kill
> processes but nothing short of "init 3" seems to help so far.
>=20
> Can anyone suggest a tool that will tell me in real time what file is
> being accessed by which process?  Something like FileMon but for Linux
> (couldn't find the Linux version).

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

Any access to block devices will be reported via syslog.
Be careful with that. It's rather easy to fill your disk with logfiles
with this.

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

to switch it off.

michael


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