>I've observed that around 0015-0030 hrs, the hard drives on my Lin
>system show unusual activity...it is like some sort of intensive
>search is going on. There are no cron or at jobs scheduled for that
>time, yet it goes on and on...Any ideas?
Scheduled jobs you bet :) Might be something like 'updatedb' or logrotate
or host of other things if nothing obvious from system logs. Still if you
are sure about absence of cron or at jobs, why dont you take a snapshot of
the processes around that time?
Sharad.
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