Re: inode spike issue.

[Tim Post <tim.post@netkinetics.net>]

Is slocate installed? Did you notice a process named updatedb running
when this happens?

Best,
-Tim

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 16:12 -0700, Anthony Tippett wrote:
> 
> When my cron.daily scripts run there is a huge spike in my open inodes
> and inode table size.  This also causes my system to start slowing
> down
> dramatically.
> 
> Does anyone know any ideas on how to diagnosis this.  See what all
> the 
> inodes are being opened for?
> 
> My only thought was lsof but the open files listed in there don't seem
> to add up to the 250K inodes that are open.
> 
> 
> 
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