Thread: Too much HDD activity
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Old 14-Sep-2008, 19:34
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Default Re: Too much HDD activity
An example of a burst logged by block_dump, shown by dmesg:

Code:
pdflush(19): WRITE block 16 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 12320776 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 12321400 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 12322032 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 12322440 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 16528632 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 16777216 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 37224448 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 37224472 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 37224680 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 37296560 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 37374304 on sda6
kjournald(1552): WRITE block 30336 on sda6
pdflush(19): WRITE block 2592 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 6592 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 7340032 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 7340040 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 7340048 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 7487488 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 9437184 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 9437192 on sda3
pdflush(19): WRITE block 9437200 on sda3
kjournald(1552): WRITE block 30344 on sda6
sda6 is /home and sda3 is /tmp. The majority of flushes happen for sda6.
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