On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:29:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Debian box thrashing away like crazy. The mouse would barely > > respond, and a ctrl-alt-backspace only partially shut down X. > > It just sort of hung while the system went nuts, the > > harddrive sounding like it was about to blow its way out the > > side of the tower. > > It wasn't perhaps a cron job running 'find ...' to update the > database > for the locate command?
Is there a way to 'disk-nice' the cron jobs, so that other disk accesses are given higher priority? I guess this needs better disk scheduling algo in the kernel. -- Manoj Victor Mathew (GPG#: 3D96A9B9) Cochin, India.
