<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Olwe Bottorff</b> <<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've noticed how something on my Fedora3 seems to be<br>thrashing the hard drive(s) very hard and long--just<br>like a Windows box being rifled through by a virus<br>checker or a find started at /. What could it be? </blockquote>
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slocate cron job running?<br>
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check /etc/cron.daily for slocate.cron. Then see if the
times in the /etc/crontab for the daily jobs match up with the times
that your HD start thrashing ....<br>
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