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[ale] Identify process hammering disk
- Subject: [ale] Identify process hammering disk
- From: thehead at patshead.com (Pat Regan)
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:52:24 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
James Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
This will cause all block read/write operations to be logged. You
should be able to find them in syslog. IIRC, each entry will log the
process that caused the page fault and whether it was a read or a write.
Pat
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