Subject: Re: File Indexing
From: Ben Stanley (bds02@uow.edu.au)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 16:50:42 MST
run top and see what's eating the cpu. Chances are it's update_db, a
process which indexes all your file names for use with the locate
command. However, this only runs at 4am on my machine or when I start it up.
There are various things started by crond - you can find them mentioned
in the files in /etc/cron.* .
Ben.
Drew Lane wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Does Linux do something similar to the Mac OS File indexing?
>
> I've noticed the hard drive thrashing about sometimes for long
> periods of time (greater than 30 seconds), but it doesn't appear
> to be using the swap at all. This can happen when I'm not doing
> much of anything.
>
> I've noticed similar behavior on my Intel box with RH Linux.
>
> Is there any explanation for this? General disk clean up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
>
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