-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:59:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > How can I stop it?
ps aux should tell you. If you don't keep your machine running 24/7 and you have anacron installed, things cron would normally do in the middle of the night get run shortly after boot if the machine wasn't on for the scheduled time those tasks are run at. These are important for maintaining your system. If these don't run, the locate command will stop giving accurate responses (since it won't have a recent idea of the filesystem) and if you read a lot of man pages, these won't get cleaned up and recompressed (thus wasting space you'd otherwise have for other things) and apropos (aka man -k) won't accurately search the manual. Your best bet is to wait it out or leave your computer on. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hAC6J5vLSqVpK2kRAqxOAJ92iRP/e/Z/7AHl5wii/gmmCe/FCACgoL1a q13GPiFbEFflImHEZf8rYEc= =PSmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
