rpm -e slocate or.. apt-get remove slocate ???
Do you ever use locate on your work machine? If not, remove it..
I had the same problem with my home machine, and I never use locate, so
I just removed it.. :-).
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:19, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> updatedb is set to run about an hour after I boot up in the morning.
> Once it is started, my machine is almost unusable for 10 minutes. Moving
> windows around the screen is unbearable: sometimes when I move a window
> I can see X redrawing the screen line by line. If it was any slower I'd
> just about see pixels forming. Typing into a shell is like being
> connected at 300 baud with a dodgy modem.
>
> My home machine doesn't suffer from this serious degredation of
> performance while doing updatedb, and is similar in specs to this work
> machine. Both home and work have 512MB ram. Although the hard drive at
> home is a bit better - it has 8MB cache and 7200rpm and is so quiet I
> don't even know updatedb is running. The work one is much noiser, and
> has a piddly 512kb cache, as reported by:
>
> # hdparm -i /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
>
> Model=ST320413A, FwRev=3.58, SerialNo=6ED3WH4A
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
> BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39102336
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
> Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 5
>
>
> Don't know what the motherboard is, but CPU is Athlon XP 1800+
> I'm thinking the changes in linux 2.6.x might help - although I'm
> running 2.4.?? at home (Athlon XP 2000) and don't see this problem.
>
> Question is, to fix this do I need (my boss to) replace:
>
> hard drive
> motherboard
> kernel (with 2.6.x)
> something else
>
> Cheers,
> Carl.
>
