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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    RE: [SLE] My SuSE Linux is very slow sometimes.
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas () tiscali ! es>
Date:       2003-02-28 13:27:16
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The 03.02.27 at 08:30, Prabu Subroto wrote:

> 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 ?

It is in "/etc/cron.daily/updatedb". However, disabling it is very easy:
edit the file "/etc/sysconfig/locate" and change the line:

RUN_UPDATEDB="yes"

to "no", and that's it.

By the way, updatedb - in my case - uses very little CPU, but a lot the
disk. The bottleneck is the HD. And, it is not the only cron task that
uses fdisk, there are some security and backup scripts that do that as
well.

When that happens, what I do is renice the task once or twice.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson



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