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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: monitor file system activity
From:       Michael Buesch <mb () bu3sch ! de>
Date:       2006-07-16 13:50:31
Message-ID: 200607161550.31869.mb () bu3sch ! de
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On Sunday 16 July 2006 15:53, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 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

Uhm, stupid question:
Won't that create a bomb?
disk access logged -> syslog -> write to disk -> jump to beginning of line

-- 
Greetings Michael.
 
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