Tracking the polling software

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 08:47 +0100, 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?
> 
> Thierry
> 
> 

Isn't this the normal regular syncing?  

See 

man 8 sync

Or does linux not do it these days?

Tony