Re: /usr/bin/updatedb high IO wait

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Moe writes:
>   Can anyone please tell me what is /usr/bin/updatedb?.

"man updatedb" says it updates the database used by "locate".
It needs to walk the filesystem(s) to do that.  Can take a while.
It should usually run at night.

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Hallvard