[ale] Occasional Extensive Disk I/O Question

[Jeffrey B. Layton]

Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

>How can I find out what is going on?  Where do I look to so what process is writing/reading to the disk?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>

A couple of questions. What filesystem are you running?
Also, when the disk light is on, can you hear anything out
of the disk? Also, try running 'vmstat' to see what's going
on. Try something like 'vmstat 2 10'. Try it a couple of
times. What happens if you do a 'sync' when this is going
on?


Jeff


_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale