On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:49:55AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Is there a "disktop" we could use to fine those app that generating dirty pages without need? E.g. something as easy to use as powertop, just for disks? If not I'd tend to say it might make sense to create one, as finding and reporting the culprits that spin up the disks might help this whole effort a lot.
blktrace produces the information, but I wouldn't currently call it "friendly".