[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
strace -p update pid -f didn't trap the bdflush process.
bdflush() is a system call, not a program. See the bdflush man page,
and /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c.
I thought bdflush() only wrote dirty file system buffers, so another
process (or kernel task) must be
I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says,
sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush
because it is a new process everytime.
Have you tried strace with the -f option and friends (-o, -ff)?
Brian
On 23 Feb, Brian White wrote:
I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says,
sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush
because it is a new process everytime.
Have you tried strace with the -f option and friends (-o, -ff)?
strace -p update
On 23 Feb, Lindsay Allen wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are
seeking the hard drive? Some program, system call, or something is
causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or
two. I
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