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".
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