On 28.11.2008 06:54, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 06:49 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 27.11.2008 16:33, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> [...] Of
>> course, it would also be helpful to stop applications generating dirty
>> pages where possible. This would obviously be reverted if the system
>> enters a critical power state.
>> [...]
>> Any thoughts?
> 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.
There is something called iotop.
I wouldn't call iotop as easy to use at powertop. And the latter afaics
was such a success mainly because it was so easy to use.
CU
knurd