The following is top's output:phoenix said:Run top() and swith to the I/O mode (press m once it's running).
last pid: 1560; load averages: 0.25, 0.29, 0.33 up 0+05:15:15 12:36:51
86 processes: 1 running, 85 sleeping
CPU: 2.4% user, 0.0% nice, 12.2% system, 0.6% interrupt, 84.8% idle
Mem: 108M Active, 30M Inact, 310M Wired, 17M Cache, 58M Buf, 12M Free
Swap: 903M Total, 178M Used, 725M Free, 19% Inuse, 4K In
PID USERNAME VCSW IVCSW READ WRITE FAULT TOTAL PERCENT COMMAND
1038 zaxis 938 182 0 0 0 0 0.00% VirtualBox
818 root 866 72 0 0 0 0 0.00% Xorg
1015 zaxis 189 17 0 0 1 1 50.00% roxterm
1041 zaxis 14 3 0 0 0 0 0.00% opera
999 root 9 1 0 0 0 0 0.00% hald-addon-storage
1036 zaxis 7 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% VBoxSVC
964 haldaemon 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% hald
1003 zaxis 3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% openbox
1018 zaxis 3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% fcitx
805 root 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% slim
1210 zaxis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00% vim
nothing else but running `top`phoenix said:What's roxterm doing that's using 50% I/O?
last pid: 1145; load averages: 0.09, 0.11, 0.08 up 0+00:42:45 08:00:33
140 processes: 3 running, 119 sleeping, 18 waiting
CPU: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 2.8% system, 0.4% interrupt, 96.4% idle
Mem: 129M Active, 27M Inact, 302M Wired, 17M Cache, 58M Buf, 2808K Free
Swap: 903M Total, 154M Used, 749M Free, 17% Inuse
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
11 root 171 ki31 0K 16K CPU1 1 39:22 100.00% {idle: cpu1}
11 root 171 ki31 0K 16K RUN 0 38:37 97.17% {idle: cpu0}
1040 zaxis 46 0 404M 226M IPRT E 0 2:54 3.56% {VirtualBox}
1055 zaxis 44 0 276M 108M select 0 1:53 0.00% {initial thread}
818 root 44 0 77268K 8064K select 1 0:37 0.00% Xorg
0 root 76 0 0K 56K sched 0 0:30 0.00% {[color="Red"]swapper[/color]}
12 root -80 - 0K 144K WAIT 1 0:09 0.00% {irq16: vgapci0}
12 root -80 - 0K 144K WAIT 1 0:07 0.00% {irq256: hdac0}
12 root -32 - 0K 144K WAIT 1 0:06 0.00% {swi4: clock}
1020 zaxis 44 0 55816K 21532K select 0 0:03 0.00% {fcitx}
1040 zaxis 44 0 404M 226M select 1 0:02 0.00% {initial thread}
...
Galactic_Dominator said:If you are using ZFS, top io mode doesn't properly display stats. You need this patch to be able to see ZFS writes:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfs-ru.diff
I think there's ZFS internals not properly represented even after the patch, but at least you'd be able to see standard file based writes.
# hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cd0
to eliminate the blinks, but you'd lose what hal functionality that provides.Galactic_Dominator said:The culprit is most likely hald-addon-storage which will poll removable media devices every 2 seconds. You can run something like# hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cd0
to eliminate the blinks, but you'd lose what hal functionality that provides.
Once you run this command, polling will be disabled permanently. Though I have disabled HAL completely a long time ago, so I may be wrong.sw2wolf said:BTW, how can i make `hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cd0` start automatically ?