On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 05:40, Jan wrote: > Mifsud Raymond at MITTS wrote: > > Have implimented redhat linux advanced server 2.1 on two P3 Xeon servers. > > Occassionally the servers goes into a cycle of sudden slowdown in performance.
Is there any pattern to this? Does it happen at a particular time or at a particular interval? Any messages in the logs at those times? Please provide more information. "My computer is slow sometimes" is NOT enough to even try to help... too many possibilities. > [...] One huge annoyance they insist on sticking into people's crontabs > is a job that indexes all the files on your disks once a day or so. Every Linux box I've ever had did the same thing, so I'm not sure the rant on Red hat is warranted. Besides, it happens at 4:00am when even my public Internet servers don't have much of a load. And, given the fact that it runs at an extremely low priority (nice +19) it should not cause a discernible slowdown in any machine. Certainly I have never noticed such a slowdown, God forbid seeing the entire server slow down to the point where it's a problem. While a possibility, I don't believe it's likely that this is his problem. However, any user can certainly disable this by deleting the file "/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron" if desired. (I would keep a copy somewhere so I could reactivate it if desired later on.) > I really can't imagine why anybody can assume that this thing is of such > general utility that it has to go on absolutely avery desktop machine > and server. I personally don't search for files more than perhaps once a > week at most, and find is more than adequate for that. And you are certainly welcome to your opinion, good sir. However, I find that "locate" takes about 0.1 seconds to run, while find can take a minute or two. Given that my people and I search for stuff at least a few times a day, I find locate absolutely invaluable. Even if I just ran one "find" or two per week, waiting minutes to get an answer is not something I'm happy to do if I can avoid it. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
