Tracking the polling software

[Tony Pursell]

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 06:36 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Tony Pursell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 08:47 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > > So how could I find out "who" is polling "something" every two
> > > seconds?
> 
> Try the command
> 
> udisks --dump|grep poll
> 
> and check if there is a 1 at the end of any column. If there is, use 
> "udisks --dump" (without grep) to see which device it is. I suppose you 
> can also change the behaviour if you want but I didn't try it myself.
> 
> > Isn't this the normal regular syncing?
> 
> There should be nothing to sync every ~2 seconds on an idle system. On 
> my system only the CD/DVD drive is polled in regular intervalls.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 

The system doesn't know if there is anything to sync without looking
first, so it just does it - at least that is what happened in my old
Unix days (1983 to 2000 approx).