I found in IOStat, that some part of my application is writing extensively, but I don't know which process it is and what files it is writing to. In Vista there is a tool fo that which shows the files that have been active in the last 30 Seconds. Is there something similar for Linux?
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To find all files modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in a particular specific directory and its sub-directories:
find /directory_path -mtime -1 -print
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Finer Recliner
2009-07-25 20:54:53
And is there also some way to monitor the activity (read write kb/s) on individual files? The server is quite active and many files get changed, but I need those with the highest transfer...
smint
2009-07-25 20:56:38
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Not sure of a program but the find command in utility has a lot of options which will allow you to find files and/or directories that have been modified within a certain time period.
For example:
$ find /home/you -iname "*.txt" -mtime -1 -print
Would find text files that were last modified 1 days ago.
You could wrap this call in some sort of script or write your own quick little app to use the results.
Here's a site with some more info and examples:
cakeforcerberus
2009-07-25 20:57:24
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What you are looking for is lsof.
It's a command line tool but there is also a GUI for it at sourceforge.
Ludwig Weinzierl
2009-07-25 21:00:22
lsof is only going to show you the files the process has open <em>now</em>
PiedPiper
2009-07-25 22:50:00
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Linux provides a file change notification API called "dnotify", along with a command line utility dnotify. You can use that to keep track of the changes over the last 30s.
I would probably write an application that builds directly on the Linux API, and discards all events older than 30s.
Martin v. Löwis
2009-07-25 21:03:30
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'strace -e trace=file' will show you exactly what files your application is reading and writong
PiedPiper
2009-07-25 22:45:57