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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] My SuSE Linux is very slow sometimes.
From:       Peter B Van Campen <peterb924 () ameritech ! net>
Date:       2003-02-27 16:29:32
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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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