On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:25:27PM -0500, Michael Shobe wrote:
> I might have a possible explanation about the "at night" lockups
> people have been seeing. Most linux distributions ship with the
> slocate program which creates a database of all the files you have
> and their locations which can be retived with locate <filename> ...
> I know at least redhat has the slocate (the part that makes the db)
> on a cron tab that runs in the middle of the night. From what i've
> taken from this list, people's bp6's is significant disk activity.
> Slocate creates a lot of this...
This was my first thought too, but after checking timestamps and logs,
this was not it. In fact, I believe these were in very much idle
situations -- which makes it even stranger. My hunch is something
flaky in power management, but just wildly guessing.
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