On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 05:15, Noah Hicks wrote: > > Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the > system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running slow > down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it kind of > irritating. Seems like it only does it once a day though. I'm just running > a laptop for webbrowsing, word processing and data analysis with a few simple > console apps. How high do my security settings need to be? > > Thanks for helping me figure this out > -Noah
Sounds like it could be "updatedb" or maybe "tripwire" running in the background? When "updatedb" runs, there is quite a bit of disk activity, and the larger the disks, the more the activity... When it happens, why not open up a term and type "ps -Ae" and see what's the last in the PID list...that might start to point to the villian... -- Wed Nov 6 09:30:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | -------------------------------- "You tried it just for once, found it alright for kicks, but now you find out you have a habit that sticks, you're an orgasm addict, you're always at it, and you're an orgasm addict." -- The Buzzcocks
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