Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!
michelle wrote:
The normal login does some sort of database
updating that does a lot of disk access (find, sort, and updatedb show up
in a ps listing. What is this for BTW?)
It updates the database that the "locate" command uses to find files on
the system, as in "locate foo" or "locate mail". If you install/create
some file since the last cron job that runs these commands, you can
manually run the command "updatedb" at any time to update the locate
database.
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Kent
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