From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6344 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2009 17:21:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 6301 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Apr 2009 17:21:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from web52003.mail.re2.yahoo.com (HELO web52003.mail.re2.yahoo.com) (206.190.49.250) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:21:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 51880 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Apr 2009 17:21:24 -0000 Message-ID: <588223.49333.qm@web52003.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.17.65.83] by web52003.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:21:24 PDT References: <592922.54823.qm@web52001.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <8ac60eac0904201639r19f7d539v2b301fcb24e82317@mail.gmail.com> <20090420234805.GA28850@caradoc.them.org> <8ac60eac0904201654h1775560se59718b127ccbfad@mail.gmail.com> <742711.93110.qm@web52008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200904211551.n3LFphaO009791@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <808758.98762.qm@web52004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <83ljpthlq2.fsf@gnu.org> <702D3FCE-02F7-4C70-AC67-3C7C62CDEBD0@elis.ugent.be> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:23:00 -0000 From: Nick Savoiu Subject: Re: GDB using a lot of CPU time and writing a lot to disk on startup To: gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <702D3FCE-02F7-4C70-AC67-3C7C62CDEBD0@elis.ugent.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00181.txt.bz2 This is what I get for the whole time that gdb is starting up: Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 2073.47 0.00 1056.12 0.00 25036.73 0.00 12518.37 23.71 0.94 0.89 0.89 93.67 sdb 0.00 2073.47 0.00 1056.12 0.00 25036.73 0.00 12518.37 23.71 0.95 0.90 0.89 94.29 There are some reads from time to time but the writes are a constant. Is there a way to determine the process that actually does the writing? Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jonas Maebe > To: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: Nick Savoiu ; gdb@sourceware.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:52:05 PM > Subject: Re: GDB using a lot of CPU time and writing a lot to disk on startup > > > On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > There should be no need to argue about this: just look at the disk LED > > when the problematic behavior kicks in. > > Or run "iostat 1" in a separate shell (you may have to install it explicitly > before it's available). > > > Jonas