Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:22:22 -0500 From: Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: continuous stream of writes? Message-ID: <56D5A59E.8040608@protected-networks.net>
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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@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
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