On 03/01/16 09:41, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > On 03/01/2016 08:22, Michael Butler wrote: >> On an otherwise idle machine, I now see a continuous stream of writes to >> disk. I've only noted this over the last couple of weeks but this will >> not be welcome behaviour on an SSD .. >> >> How do I find the source of these writes? >> >> >> imb_at_toshi:/home/imb> iostat 10 >> tty ada0 cd0 pass0 cpu >> tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id >> 0 992 58.53 229 13.10 0.00 0 0.00 0.37 0 0.00 13 2 7 1 78 >> 0 23 30.82 12 0.36 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 2 0 4 0 94 >> 0 8 31.38 12 0.37 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 4 0 96 >> 0 8 31.75 11 0.34 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 3 0 3 0 94 >> 0 8 31.82 11 0.35 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 3 0 96 >> 0 8 31.76 12 0.36 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 3 0 96 >> 0 8 31.75 11 0.35 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 4 0 95 >> 0 8 31.55 12 0.38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 3 0 96 >> > > The I/O mode of "top" might be useful: > > top -m io Well that's different .. KDE konsole .. why on earth .. ? last pid: 54891; load averages: 0.32, 0.45, 0.48 up 0+17:32:51 09:43:58 102 processes: 1 running, 101 sleeping CPU: 1.4% user, 0.0% nice, 4.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 94.5% idle Mem: 463M Active, 1599M Inact, 708M Wired, 255M Buf, 196M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 500M Used, 3596M Free, 12% Inuse PID USERNAME VCSW IVCSW READ WRITE FAULT TOTAL PERCENT COMMAND 1395 imb 4 1 0 0 0 0 0.00% gkrellm --sm-client-id 1038b38f3a6339000140789027600000013050011 1498 imb 275 55 0 0 0 0 0.00% /usr/local/bin/firefox 1478 imb 33 7 0 22 0 22 100.00% kdeinit4: kdeinit4: konsole (kdeinit4) 1136 root 16 6 0 0 0 0 0.00% /usr/local/bin/X -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-xl3Taa (Xorg) 1345 imb 35 5 0 0 0 0 0.00% kwin -session 1038b38f3a6339000144659063000000424580056_1456780081_701192 5Received on Tue Mar 01 2016 - 13:45:39 UTC
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