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From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Shaw
Sent: 30 November 2009 10:56 PM
To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:44 PM, John Nissley <jnissley(a)nissley.org> wrote:
I have a Fedora 11 server running 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64. I
recently
noticed that my hard drive light is on constantly and was wondering how I
can determine what is accessing the hard disk so much. After boot the hard
disk is acting normally for a few minutes to a few hours and then the hard
drive light is lit up constantly.
I have tried ps -ef to see if there was anything running that I do not know
about and there is not. Is there any way for me to determine which process
is consistently using the hard disk?
I use iotop but there is probably a way to do it without installing
anything new...
Richard
You could parse the output of lsof. A script such as the one at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/how-to-track-whic...
can do that for you.
Sanya
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