Sascha Beaumont wrote: > Roy Britten wrote: > >>On my desktop at the moment I'm noticing brief HDD action every 5 >>seconds or so. Is there some tool that will allow me to see which >>application / process is accessing the HDD? >> >>SuSE 9.1 >>KDE 3.2 >> >>Cheers. >>Roy. >> > > > Its probably the filesystem making sure everything is written to disk. > throw noatime onto the mount options for your drive to stop it updating > the time files were accessed, and hence requiring the disks to be flushed. > >>From some random website... "By default the disk is accessed everytime > you open a file, even for reading or executing, to save the access time." > > I think noflushd might also be useful if you want the disks to spin down. > > > Sascha
Oh I forgot, as far as monitoring whats going on "lsof" will show you what processes have what files and devices open... its a bit ugly and there will be a lot of excess information you dont need, but technically it will do what you asked :) Sascha
