Uffhhh..... I don't know.... "updatedb" is a new word for me. Let me have more experience with that first, than I will answer your question. --- Peter B Van Campen <peterb924@ameritech.net> wrote:
Hi,
When I see heavy disk activety there have been 3 updatedb instances running. Is that normal?
Interested ................. PeterB
On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:47 am, Peer Stefan wrote:
Hi,
From: Prabu Subroto [mailto:prabusubroto@yahoo.com] Dear my friends....
I wonder why my SuSE Linux 8.1 becomes very slow sometimes. It becomes slow if my harddisk suddenly being busy because of an unknown process. I guess because fsck but I am not sure.
I hope it's not fsck, because it needs an unmounted filesystem.
It's rather updatedb, a daemon, which updates the locate-database. It uses find, which produces pretty heavy load (scans all mounted filesystems for files ...). If you recognize such a load try "ps -elf | grep update" and "ps -elf | grep find" and "top" is also a pretty good tool to check for hungry processes.
What is the unknown process actually? And how can I stop /cease it ?
updatedb is started from the root-crontab, you may change settings there or even disable it.
Thank you very much in advance.
you're welcome, Stefan
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