monitor disk read/writes??

Michael Beattie mtbeedee at gmail.com
Fri May 20 22:34:40 UTC 2005


On 5/20/05, gm c <gm_c2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to monitor what daemon is making read or
> writes to disk? Is there is a program that will do it? Do I need to
> make a configure in the kernel?
> I want to spin the disk down with hdpram after my non use but some
> daemon is keeping the disk busy with something.
> mike
> 
> 

lsof is the name of the tool used to list open files.    It's going to
tell you a lot of files though because there's a lot that you dont
realize that's going on.




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