Tracking the polling software

[NoOp]

On 12/11/2010 11:47 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I run Ubuntu 10.10 and noticed that my harddisk light lights up every two 
> seconds or so, which I attribute to some software's polling activity.
> 
> I allreay had this in the past and it was linked to HAL polling the disks. But 
> stopping HAL doesn't stop the polling (or should I reboot?).
> 
> I've looked at the system monitor, but with the exception of the 
> gnome-system-monitor they are all sleeping.
> 
> So how could I find out "who" is polling "something" every two seconds?

I've not tried it (yet), but you could try iotop:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/iotop
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iotop/+bugs