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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:13:04 +0300
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange disk activity
Message-ID:  <97757247@ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20100220214845.GI70798@dan.emsphone.com> (Dan Nelson's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:48:45 -0600")
References:  <97752307@ipt.ru> <20100220202614.GG70798@dan.emsphone.com> <88797383@ipt.ru> <20100220214845.GI70798@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:48:45 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said:

> > Are there other possibilities meanwhile?

>   ktrace -d -i -p 0 ; sleep 10 ; ktrace -C 

> , then run kdump -m64 and search for large numbers of writes in the output. 
> "-d -i -p0" selects all current and future children of pid 0, which will
> trace all processes.  "-m64" limits the I/O dump size to 64 bytes.

Impressive!

Thanks, Dan, I've got a real new tool. ;-)

-- 
WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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