[Gllug] what is causing disk activity ?

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Thu Nov 20 20:32:27 UTC 2008


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"Martin A. Brooks" writes:

>>> You're using a journalling filesystem?
>>
>> Yes: ext3
>
>There you go then.

Perhaps. But until he actually measures it, and verifies exactly what
is causing the writes, it's just speculation. That's why SystemTap is
the right answer here.

c.f. Rob Pike's Rule 2

Tet
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