[ltp] HDD access avery 5 seconds?

[Kiko Piris]

On 14/08/2008 at 16:12 +0100, Richard Neill wrote:

> What I want to know is: How do I identify which *process* is accessing
> the filesystem (and  thereby causing disk access) when the machine is
> idle.

AFAIK, there is no such a straightforward tool as top to find this.

You can find some instructions on how to identify such processess in the
linux documentation of laptop-mode:

./Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt

in kernel source tree (search for block_dump).

-- 
Kiko