From: Michael Prokop Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:55:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: mention lsof in block_dump tip X-Git-Tag: 0.3.26 X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-tips.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2025551e4ebacc339247714a65987d553a48a182 mention lsof in block_dump tip --- diff --git a/grml_tips b/grml_tips index 29fa996..de47abc 100644 --- a/grml_tips +++ b/grml_tips @@ -1758,6 +1758,8 @@ Start X and lock console via exiting: -- Which process is writing to disk and/or causes the disk to spin up? +First of all use lsof to check what's going on. Does not help? -> + # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump The command sets a sysctl to cause the kernel to log all disk