[ale] VMWare and disk usage?

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:50 -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Wierd one here...
> 
> VMWare server.  Linux gutsy server.  VMWare guest images are actually
> located on an NFS filesystem shared from a NAS server.  The Linux host
> though is constantly nailing out it's disk IO.
> 
> I thought it might be swap except swap is /dev/sda5.  "iostat -c -d -p
> 2" though shows all the IO is on /dev/sda1, the root partition.  I've
> run a "find . -mtime -1 -ls" and I'm not finding anything growing
> rapidly or quickly.  I thought it might be process accounting but I
> don't believe that's turned on by default.  The only thing I see very
> active on the system is the vmware-server but again, it's not really
> supposed to be writing anything to / anyway.
> 
> Any thoughts?

NFS caching?

-Jim P.