Hi, > My laptop has 256mb of ram, > but every day > it runs the updatedb for locate. The remedy here is simple: Do not run updatedb from cron, but only when you made changes. Greetings, Jens - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/