Re: [Banshee-List] re ducing HDD/SSD access

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert gmail com>]

> On further examination, I notice that both machines periodically access the
> drive even when banshee is closed, on a period that ranges from 3 sec to 20
> secs, so maybe the problem is not Banshee (or at least not Banshee alone).
> If anyone has any ideas, they'll be greatfully received; otherwise, I'll
> take the issue to the ubumtu forums.

Perhaps `pidstat -d` could be helpful to track down what process is
doing the IO. After that, use strace to see what the process is
reading and/or writing.

strace -e read,write some_prog

Good luck, (and share your results if they are alarming) :-)

-- Christian