[9fans] disturbing disk access

2010-10-02 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, even when I 'do nothing' there is a disk access every cca 15 seconds on my plan9 notebook. Can anyone tell me why this happens? Can I find what causes it? It's quite disturbing and perhaps unnecessary... Thanks! Ruda

Re: [9fans] disturbing disk access

2010-10-02 Thread erik quanstrom
even when I 'do nothing' there is a disk access every cca 15 seconds on my plan9 notebook. Can anyone tell me why this happens? Can I find what causes it? you can start with grep '(#S|/dev/sd..)/' /proc/*/fd but obviously, that's just going to give you fossil or venti. you can try

Re: [9fans] disturbing disk access

2010-10-02 Thread Rudolf Sykora
you can start with        grep '(#S|/dev/sd..)/' /proc/*/fd this gives me /dev/sdC0/^(fossil arenas isect) all many times minooka;  g 'sleep\(15[^)][^)]' . | awk -F: '{if($1 != o)print; o = $1}' where do you run this so that you obtain the following? My 'g', as far as I know, doesn't walk

Re: [9fans] disturbing disk access

2010-10-02 Thread erik quanstrom
this gives me /dev/sdC0/^(fossil arenas isect) all many times so it could be atime access. try halting all the programs previously listed and seeing if that doesn't stop disk activity. where do you run this so that you obtain the following? My 'g', as far as I know, doesn't walk through

Re: [9fans] disturbing disk access

2010-10-02 Thread erik quanstrom
I don't know exactly what I killed, but killing what showed as 'fs' by 'ps' helped. No more disc operation every 15 seconds any more... Thanks! that's upas/fs. - erik

[9fans] 9vx tutorial: running a cpu server from kfs (RFC)

2010-10-02 Thread yy
This tutorial is a work in progress (it will eventually be added to the 9vx documentation and probably to the Plan 9 wiki). Please let me know if you see anything I'm doing wrong (unfortunately I don't have too much experience with real Plan 9 systems of more than one machine). In particular, I