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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] My SuSE Linux is very slow sometimes.
From:       Prabu Subroto <prabusubroto () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-02-27 16:34:21
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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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