> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Badger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] Disk tapper on Woody > > > I'm running a Woody system (installed from the SLUG/Debian > CD, needless > to say :-) ), and there is something going on that is causing > the disk > to be constantly accessed. It's like a constant tapping sound as the > disk is being hit. > > How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is > there a cool > monitor out there that I can use to find out?
Try tailing /var/log/messages - if there is some hardware-level-weirdness(tm) happening it may show up in there as a bad seek request or something along those lines. That was how I got warning that one of my servers' hard drives was in danger of immanent failure. --James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
