On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:16 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: > 1) Is there any simple way of determining which process is associated > with significant disk activity?
Run "top", or your favoured system monitor, and look for processes in "D" state: uninterpretable sleep mode. A process enters "D" state when it is waiting for IO to finish. (I am not sure why they chose D, because it is the mark of the Devil?) If you hunch is right, you will see that "updatedb" is the culprit. > 2) What solutions are available for reducing desktop sluggishness > because some database or other is reindexing? Would moving key data > directories (/home) to a separate drive away from application binaries > help? Change the time that updatedb runs ☺ -- Michael JasonSmith http://ldots.org/
