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l_bratch
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject: Viewing all disk accesses [Solved] |
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I'm trying to silence a machine as much as possible, and have got all fans disabled, the only thing remaining is the hard disk.
I have it set to idle timeout after 5 seconds with hdparm -S1 /dev/hda, but it still turns back on to read or write every so often.
Is there some program I can have running that will report all disk activity, so I can try to figure out what is doing it?
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labba
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Hi!
You could try the following as root:
| Code: | echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
tail -f /var/log/messages
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This should show you the processes reading/writing from/to disk. |
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l_bratch
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, that's just what I needed. |
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