Someone mentioned to me that unknown hard disk activity could be due to
locate building it's index? Could this be it? Can anyone clarify?
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From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 November 2000 19:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Bizarre cron job
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Lewis Bishop wrote:
Someone mentioned to me that unknown hard disk activity could be due to
locate building it's index? Could this be it? Can anyone clarify?
If you have a cron job that rebuilds the locate database, it DOES take a
long time to run ;-)
Just make sure it
Hi Paul,
I haven't been doing much to make my hard drive work harder lately--mostly
trying to keep up with e-mail and other writing! Did the bizarre behavior stop
happening at inopportune times on your machine when you upgraded to 7.2?
When you say "Linux starts rearranging things on its own,"
Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 on my home computer, an AMD K-6/450 with 64
MB RAM, 6.5 GB HD. I get up early, and I'm used to seeing cron jobs start
to run at 4 a.m. while I'm at the computer. The hard drive starts doing
things, the mouse gets a tiny bit jumpy, and performance slows down a bit,
