-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2008-10-25 at 03:22 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, you may have a problem, but not a security one, I think. That being so, you may get more replies in the standard mail list.
There are a series of processes that run every day, about the same hour, and one of them is this mandb. Some of these processes are disk-intensive (like locatedb), and in some cases can slow your system dramatically. Not crash the system, but slow it down: specially if the disk is big and slow, and memory is scarce.
Yesterday I noticed when mandb was running, and I saw that its used memory was increasing slowly. At the end (several minutes), I think it was using 300 MB, which is quite a lot. I was not aware that is was so intensive. The OP surely has a point. The script that calls it is quite carefull (/etc/cron.daily/suse-do_mandb): renice +5 -p$$ > /dev/null || true ionice -c 3 -p$$ > /dev/null || true The first call makes it use less cpu, the second less disk resources. Clint, you can try to use a renice value of 15, see if that makes things easier. How much memory do you have? Make sure you have some swap, too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkF5SsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XSygCeMSB90yEgeWZMy1YnSTPETRlP +fIAoIGP0R/H7Dvd2FReMM50zrcsWkRr =Imj+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org