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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
