[Wylug-discuss] Which process is accessing the hard drive?

[David Holden]

On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 09:56, Jim Jackson wrote:


  lsof

may be of help

Dave.


> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Steve King wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 Borph at gmx.de wrote:
> >> I just wonder why my laptop keeps beeing busy with the hard drive,
> >> although not doing anything. It seems that something is accessing the
> >> drive in _very_ regular moments, eg. every 7 seconds.
> >
> > A stab in the dark would say that it's your system logs.
>
> The "usual" regular time stamp by syslog in the system logged is something
> like 10mins if I recall right. Every 7 secs is pretty quick.
>
> Could be all sorts. I know Dave Roberts dissected his server setup to find
> out what was accessing his hard drive - care to offer advice Dave?
>
> Jim
>
>
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