Re: makewhatis - out of nowhere

[Jim Cornette <fc-cornette insight rr com>]

sly wrote:
> i installed fc3 1 week ago and since some weired things are happening. out of nowhere the hdd starts going off like crazy, the cpu runs at 100%, the temperature goes up.
> all these are caused by "makewhatis". witch i don't know how it started and why. and worst of all is that i can't kill it!
> anybody had experience this?
>
> I have to give a seminar using OO.o Impress / FC3, in a Dell Inspiron
> 8600 laptop. I wonder if anyone could give me a hint on how to make it
> work with a projector.
>
>

Prelink also hogs the CPU and causes a similar problem as you describe. 
Rather than disable all of these services, adding preference entries for 
controlling background processes to run at lower percntages would be a 
better approach.

A twenty to thirty degree temperature rise caused by a background 
process bogging down the processor is a bad approach for background 
processes. Having processes disabled that are useful is not the answer 
either.

Jim


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