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Subject:    RE: [SLE] My SuSE Linux is very slow sometimes.
From:       Prabu Subroto <prabusubroto () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-02-27 16:30:28
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Dear Stefan...

I didn't find "updatedb" in my cron file
(/var/spool/cron/tabs).

I want to disable it. Where should I do it from ?
--- Peer Stefan <stefan.peer@tiwag.at> 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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