Re: I am impressed with Debian!
It is probably just the updatedb running, to update the database for the
"locate" command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why
the disk runs for so long. :)
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Martin Waller wrote:
> It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find
> running.
>
> I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass.
>
> I haven't had the problem for a while.
>
> May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default
> loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it.
>
> I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been
> unfounded.
>
> caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have!
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> >From: Gregory Wood <gwood@farsweb.com>
> >To: Patrick Colbeck <pat.colbeck@esc.azlan.co.uk>
> >CC: Barry Kauler <bkauler@cowan.edu.au>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
> >Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500
> >
> >Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
> > > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
> > > doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
> > > kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4
> > > minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat
> > > or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M
> > > series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about
> > > 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file.
> > >
> > > Pat
> > >
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> >It sounds like a 'cron' job was running.
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