On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:52:37AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/21/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote: > > >Strange. I know on my system when my hourly rsync backup runs, it can > >take a couple of seconds for things that are normally instantaneous. > >Beyond that, I am not sure. Does this happen all the time or only at > >certain times? Is your machine on all the time or not. I know that the > >locate database is updated sometime during the night. However, if your > >machine is not on at night, it may run at bootup, which would reduce the > >amount of I/O badnwidth available to other applications. > > It's on mostly at nights. And it's been night time when I h ave seen > this happen. Does nto happen always but only sometimes. Say once a > night. Seen this since last 3 or 4 days. I think ROberto is right -- you've probably got some cron job that's competing. A quick ps -e or ps aux should clue you in. If you jump to a terminal everytime it happens, you'll quickly figure out what the source of the problem is. A
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