[Discuss] How can you tell which application exercises the disk a lot?

[R. Langkamer]

On 11/3/07 12:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I installed the kde package on my new box, and since then I notice that the
> disk light goes on every 2 seconds or so.  I am trying to track down which
> (KDE) application is doing it so I can uninstall that package if possible.
> I have never seen that behaviour from KDE before, but then I am usually 
> much
> more selective about what I install from KDE, and I now regret the
> "shortcut" of installing the "kde" Debian package that sucks in most kde
> applications.
> 
> "ps auxww" tells me there are many applications starting with a "k" that 
> are
> now running even though I don't have any KDE desktops actually running at
> the time.  Is there some equivalent to "top" for disk usage so I can find
> which of those KDE applications are the culprit?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alan


	The first thing that comes to mind is the Linux version of Spotlight. 
If I recall correctly, it is called Beagle.
	The second thing I can think of is to start lsof or something similar 
and track down what is being accessed. Granted lsof is probably not 
ideal, but hopefully it gives you an nudge in the right direction. :)

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