rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 12:51 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2011 12:42:48 Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 01/31/2011 08:28 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > lsof | grep -E (3180|3181|3183)
> > > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> > > 
> > > Tried a few variations, but not got it right.
> > 
> > lsof | grep -E 3180\|3181\|3183
> > 
> > ??
> No, that just hangs there, like some of the variations I tried :-).

In my experience lsof can be quirky when you try and filter its output.
Try:

lsof -p 3180,3181,3183

poc