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meino.cramer@×××.de writes: |
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> Hi, |
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> on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to |
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> physical existing disks steadily increasing. |
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> Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous |
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> for receiving those writes. |
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> In the context of preserving the live of flash media by minimizing |
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> the count of unessary writes I want to know which |
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> application/daemon/etc is continous writing to that media and which |
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> """entity""" (file/pipe/fifo...) is receiving those writes... |
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> How can I find that information? |
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iotop might tell you. |
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Since you don't see anything in lsof, I'd assume that the file (if it's |
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a file) is opened and closed rather than being kept open. Or could it |
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be a swap partition which is used? |
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-- |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |