On 01-Mar-2002 Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using anacron on my router (just an old 486) and everytime anacron is > running a job, it's hard to do anything else with it (e.g. takes about 5 > seconds or so just to get a login prompt and it takes a minute or more to get > a small internet site). I know anacron is running its jobs with 'nice' by > default so it should already have a very low process priority but can I do > anything to improve this behaviour? >
anacron runs the jobs listed in /etc/cron.daily,weekly,monthly. If one of them causes the disk to get read intensely no amount of nice will help. Another poster mentions updatedb and this is a likely place to look. I just wanted to let you know where else to look.
