From 2025551e4ebacc339247714a65987d553a48a182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Prokop Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:55:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mention lsof in block_dump tip --- grml_tips | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.1.4