[mythtv-users] OT: How can I tell what process is writing to my hard drive?
William Munson
william_munson at bellsouth.net
Fri Jul 20 18:13:09 UTC 2007
Bob wrote:
> William Munson wrote:
>
>> Recently my myth backend system started to have continuous low level
>> hard drive activity 24 hours a day. Basically a continuous flicker, not
>> solid on. This is not normal for this system and I want to track down
>> who is doing all the I/O and hopefully even what file(s). Do any of the
>> experts here know how to troubleshoot this kind of a problem. Is there a
>> command that allows monitoring of drive activity like top does for
>> system activity?
>>
>> System is FC6 based on MythDora but heavily customized. Myth SVN and
>> system are pretty much up to date.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Bill
>>
>>
> cd into / and run a command like,
> find . -cmin -10 | grep -v /proc/ | grep -v /dev/
> It will show you what files have been updated in the last 10 minutes
>
>
That may be useful to me. Thank you. I have turned off and/or disabled
every process I can without effect so I am starting to think it may be
kernel or system logging. Once the system is available again I will try
out your script.
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