On Wed, 09 Sep 1998, you wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Steve Mills wrote:
After my SuSE has been up and running for a while on this Micron 166 (32mb ram) I get bogged down with memory usage. The HDD light remains on and the mouse gets choppy.
I looked in with Xosview and can see my CPU running at 100teadily. A glance with top and I see something called "find" claiming 930f my CPU usage, so I kill it. Then "mandb" runs up to 78%. Kill that. Now things are good again.
What was happening? I have only used Terminal, KMail and Netscape this morning on a fresh boot. I have a screensaver active, is that it? I just can't see the CPU remaining under a load after the screensaver stops.
Have you been working early today, say around 6:53 am? Then you have experienced the cron.daily cron job. This is a set of shell scripts, that do some background system maintenance, like removing old core files, rotating log files and updating the manual page index cache.
Nothing to worry about.
LenZ
That's exactly it. Thanks. Can I reschedule that job to allow my typical early morning browsing? I haven't dug that deep yet other than to know that cron is in here. And given that I have a rather minimal system on that Micron, the word "background" is hardly appropriate. :) -- Steve Mills steve@millsphoto.com <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.com</A</A>> Great Wallpapers Live Here. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e