Quote Originally Posted by PoppaGeek View Post
@SMTB1963 If you are up to doing a software install this looks like it will do what you want. IOTOP It is listed in the Synaptic package manager so should not be a big deal to install.

Use iotop -o to show only processes that are writing or reading to disk. Far easier to read.
iotop -a is even better as it shows the accumulated writes and reads and they stay on screen instead of flashing.
Thanks!!! That's exactly what I was looking for!

It appears that the kernel shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 was not compiled with the CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT option enabled - but I still get output from IOTOP showing the threads responsible for the IO activity. As I feared, BOINC is the culprit:


These writes occur at least every 2 seconds. Since the SSD is small (32GB), I'm a little concerned about its longevity crunching 24/7.

Thing is, I've noticed this behavior from BOINC on my Win 7 x64 machine as well...continual small writes show up in Resource Monitor - no matter what value I input in the "Task checkpoint to disk" setting.

Any thoughts?

Speaking of sensors, I do have another (much less urgent) question maybe you guys might be able to help with. Are any of you guys running linux on an AMD system? My PII 1055t box is running Ubuntu 10.10 (which has k10temp support in the kernel), but the sensors applet shows a completely different CPU temperature than what's indicated in BIOS - about 19C cooler. The applet allows for both additive and multiplicative adjustments to the value displayed, so I simply added 19 to the temperature value at idle. Is this correct, or is it more complicated than that? The machine's been running for several days now with no hiccups, so I'm not real concerned about this one.

Again, I really appreciate you guys getting this thread going.

Regards