Observations

Thu May 29 23:13:01 2003

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Bruce,
Thanks on this point.  I assumed as much but hadn't run top or really
looked into it.  Is there a way to reschedule chron jobs?  It usually
pops up at inconvenient times.

Thanks!

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 23:08, bruce woller wrote:

> On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 04:17  PM, S.M.Kelly wrote:
> 
> 
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> 
> Fourth, there are various times I notice my hard drive starts spinning
> like crazy.  I can hear it clicking away like it's accessing things,
> but nothing (that I know of) is running.  Is this indexing or
> something going on?
> 
> 
> </excerpt>
> 
> This is probably a cron job running slocate -u.  It is indexing file
> names.   For those of us who use slocate it is really helpful to have
> your disk indexed once a day.  If you do a 'ps -aux'  or start 'top' 
> when your disk is thrashing you can probably see which process is
> causing the commotion.
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> bruce
> 

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Bruce,<BR>
Thanks on this point.&nbsp; I assumed as much but hadn't run top or really looked into it.&nbsp; Is there a way to reschedule chron jobs?&nbsp; It usually pops up at inconvenient times.<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 23:08, bruce woller wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 04:17  PM, S.M.Kelly wrote:

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Fourth, there are various times I notice my hard drive starts spinning
like crazy.&nbsp; I can hear it clicking away like it's accessing things,
but nothing (that I know of) is running.&nbsp; Is this indexing or
something going on?

&lt;/excerpt&gt;

This is probably a cron job running slocate -u.  It is indexing file
names.   For those of us who use slocate it is really helpful to have
your disk indexed once a day.  If you do a 'ps -aux'  or start 'top' 
when your disk is thrashing you can probably see which process is
causing the commotion.

regards,

bruce
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