so am doing my usual stuff on the pc, nothing special, when i suddenly note a huge jump in the cpu usage, use of memory, even swap space, in the monitor graph. my pc actually slows to a crawl.
This msotly happens to me when slocate kicks in.
frantic. is that a slurp from the net connection? i get a console to do tcpdumping, but it shows all's quiet on the western front.
Run top immediately.
could that be some cron task? or what?
Only way out - note down the time immediately! And see if the thing happens again in the future. You can also go through the crontab and /etc/cron.d files to see if you find a match on the time.
- Sandip
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