Tracking the polling software

[NoOp]

On 12/13/2010 12:35 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2010 08:21:33 pm NoOp wrote:
>>
>> Did you try iotop?
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install iotop
>> $ man iotop
>> $ iotop -o
> 
> Yes I did. Mainly kjournald appears, but this (logicaly) continues after 
> inhibiting all polling stops the harddisk light to pulse. Other things that 
> sometime appear are gconf and gnome-settings-daemon.

You might try:

$ iotop -o -b > iotest.txt

let it run for a few minutes & then stop with a Ctrl-C. Then:

$ gedit iotest.txt

Try it again with a different file name (iotest2.txt) & do a few things
that you know are accessing the disk (Nautilus etc) & then compare to
iotest.txt. Maybe from that you'll be able to pin something down. Good luck.