Re: Sky high load average

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:06:23AM -0600, Pete Huckelba wrote:
> You may also want to take a look in /etc/cron.daily.  -slocate.cron- has 
> caused problems on my NFS servers in the past.  If the mount was active and 
> then dies or remote host shuts down without notifying other NFS machines, 
> updatedb will continue to try and index the broken mount, causing load 
> averages to skyrocket with little impact on CPU performance since the job 
> is niced to 19.  I permanently resolved my issues by simply including my 
> NFS mounts in the exclude section of the command.
> 
> Pete
nfs mounted files are already ecluded in the slocate command run in
slocate.cron.
At least in valhalla they are.
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