what tool to find what's writing to disk

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana]

Matthew R Dempsky writes:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:21:39AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
>> It's a process that runs in the background doing stuff forever.
>> How's that not a daemon?

> If that's your definition of a daemon, then sure, it's a daemon.

> However, most people only consider user-space processes to be daemons, 
> and, as Gary stated, pdflush is a kernel process.

Well, if the kernel documentation isn't buggy at this point, the
kernel developers *do* agree in calling pdflush a daemon :)

$ grep -A2 pdflush.*daemon.*perio Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 
The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write `old' data
out to disk.  This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in
100'ths of a second.

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--Jhair