On Mon, 28 May 2001 01:32:42 -0400
Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a problem, and I think it's with slocate. Every so
often, my hard
> drive will go nuts and just start grinding uncontrollably, taking up
all my
> system resources and forcing a hard shutdown (with the attendant
problem of
> fsck having to fix everything on boot-up). Is there some way to get
slocate
> to behave itself so it doesn't lock up my system? TIA.
Are you sure it's related to slocate?
It sounds more like some program which has a memory leak. The program
fills then all the memory (including swap), untill the system becomes
unusual.
You might want to run top in the background, and check which program
uses then all the cpu and memory, and if necessary, kill it.
Netscape 4 is famous for this. But I've seen this with more apps.
--
Marcel Pol
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...my cow ate the CDs.
