Re: Excessive disk activities...

[achana saysit com]

Matthew Bradford wrote:

> If you run top on your system you should see that updatedb is running.  This
> happens with IDE drives as well.  AFAIK it helps you to find files quicker
> when you do searches.  I am not certain though.
>
> I am pretty sure that is what you're seeing... because that does do a lot of
> drive work.
>
>  - Matt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <achana saysit com>
> To: <redhat-list redhat com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 11:30 PM
> Subject: Excessive disk activities...
>
> > Hi !
> >
> > H/W  : Adaptec SCSI Seagate disks with swap = 2x512k memory .
> > S/W   : RedHat7.1 / Oracle 9i Standard / j2sdk1.4.0 .
> >
> > Once or twice a day, I notice excessive disk activities, really
> > thrashing the disks, as if memory is being dumped into swap.
> > It happens at night too, when there is practically no work acitivities.
> > There is a comstant , very low level of disk activity clicking away,
> > regardless of whether there is any work going on .
> >
> > Has anyone noticed that and is it a problem ?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Arthur Chan
> >
>
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Thanks, u r right , Oracle's updatedb was running.
Strange thing, it does that only during "slack" time, nobody doing much  of
anything work-related ...
I worry too much ...

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