Tracking the polling software
Tony Pursell
ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Dec 13 00:46:23 UTC 2010
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
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