Re: I am impressed with Debian!
Debian runs automatically (every day) a program named `updatedb' which builds some sort of file database. To disable this you can simply chmod 644 /etc/cron.daily/find. -Lex On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:47:38AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find running. I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. I haven't had the problem for a while. May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it. I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been unfounded. caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have! Martin From: Gregory Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500 Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It sounds like a 'cron' job was running. -- Gregory Wood Farsight Computer 1219 W University Blvd Odessa TX 79764 Voice: 1-915-335-0879 CT Pioneers Board Member Novell CNE Appgen VAR -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null pgpqgDFtAOQIs.pgp Description: PGP signature
I am impressed with Debian!
It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find running. I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. I haven't had the problem for a while. May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it. I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been unfounded. caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have! Martin From: Gregory Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500 Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It sounds like a 'cron' job was running. -- Gregory Wood Farsight Computer 1219 W University Blvd Odessa TX 79764 Voice: 1-915-335-0879 CT Pioneers Board Member Novell CNE Appgen VAR -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: I am impressed with Debian!
It is probably just the updatedb running, to update the database for the locate command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why the disk runs for so long. :) On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Martin Waller wrote: It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find running. I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. I haven't had the problem for a while. May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it. I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been unfounded. caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have! Martin From: Gregory Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500 Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It sounds like a 'cron' job was running. -- Gregory Wood Farsight Computer 1219 W University Blvd Odessa TX 79764 Voice: 1-915-335-0879 CT Pioneers Board Member Novell CNE Appgen VAR -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I am impressed with Debian!
Martin Waller wrote: It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find running. I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. See the `locate' command. It's very handy to quickly find files on your system: $ locate bib-cite.el /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/lisp/auctex/bib-cite.el.gz /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/lisp/auctex/bib-cite.elc /usr/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite.elc /usr/share/emacs/20.3/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite.elc /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite.el To be able to do this feat, the system runs find every day. Peter -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
Re: I am impressed with Debian!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 08:47:38 PDT, Martin Waller wrote: I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. It is the locate database updating. Want a real PITA, try an out of date locate database. ;) - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBN11CSnpf7K2LbpnFEQImIQCeI00QKWSoeevErUCBUpFY1Ln4yjAAn1Pv /Iwl7jbRVYyRlpRup/1i/SV+ =YSDY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: I am impressed with Debian!
locate command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why the disk runs for so long. :) Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was It's probably worth mentioning at this point that running updatedb (and thrashing your drive) once nightly is _highly_ preferable to running find 20 times daily and making your drives go nuts each time. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| --
