Looking at the man-db file in /etc/cron.daily, if I run this command: start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /usr/bin/mandb \ --oknodo --chuid man -- --no-purge
The thing runs and runs and doesn't stop. The thing is that this thing used to run, along with all the other stuff in cron.daily and didn't have this problem. So something's wrong. Don't know what it is. -Rob > On 20030305.1110, Beaker (aka Jeff W) said ... > > Rob Hudson wrote: > > Every morning when I come to my workstation at work (Debian testing), my > > CPU is maxed out at 100%. If I look at top, I see mandb is taking up > > 100% CPU. Looking at my process tree shows this: > > <snip> > > Anyone have an idea of what's going on and how I can fix it? > > from http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man8/mandb.8.gz > > mandb(8) > NAME > mandb - create or update the manual page index caches > > --- > > I'd guess that this is getting called from your daily cron file and > isn't niced down => it hogs your cpu. Chances are you don't need to > update your manpage DB every night... :) > > -beaker _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
