From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:48:29 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080926T174516-777@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1222431409.22042.14.camel@camille.espersunited.com
Michael Sullivan <michael <at> espersunited.com> writes:
> Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard
> drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd
> really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad
> that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it...
Using a variety of tools will help you discover the offending processes.
Here are my suggestions, all in portage
hddtemp, to see if the drive is overheating.
pstree to see a simple graphical representation of your processes
hdparm to see check your hard drive (ide) settings
You have many good suggestions from others. Keep looking until you
find what is curious and then post back, if you cannot find a solution.
hth,
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-26 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-26 12:16 [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive Michael Sullivan
2008-09-26 12:19 ` Justin
2008-09-26 12:21 ` Johann Schmitz
2008-09-26 12:27 ` zhen
2008-09-26 15:19 ` Paul Hartman
2008-09-26 15:46 ` Liviu Andronic
2008-09-26 17:48 ` James [this message]
2008-09-26 22:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-09-26 22:19 ` Christophe LEFEBVRE
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