[ale] Identify process hammering disk

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Tue Apr 18 08:52:24 EDT 2006


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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