Subject: Re: File Indexing
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 17:14:37 MST
Ah yes... the 4 AM disk thrash....
Just like clockwork on my machine... review your crontab(s).
-- John
Ben Stanley wrote:
> 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.
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