[PLUG] Morning Slugishness
Richard C. Steffens
rsteff at comcast.net
Wed Jul 26 18:00:19 UTC 2006
Jason Martin wrote:
> Is the delay from the applications being paged back in from swap?
Apparently. (See reply from Charlie).
> Is your hard drive grinding away while the delay occurs?
Not that I've noticed, but the machine is under the desk and the fan is
loud enough that I don't hear the hard drives.
> Perhaps a
> background cron job (does SuSE ship with slocate/updatedb enabled?) is
> hogging your memory causing your idle apps to be paged out?
I've never looked before (he says somewhat sheepishly). I see from the
following that updatedb is enabled, but on a daily basis. I also see
that there is at least one useless feature, a battery check, so I'll
investigate further and see what each of these things does.
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rsteff at dhcppc4:/etc> ls cron*
crontab
cron.d:
yast2-online-update
cron.daily:
clean_catman suse.de-backup-rc.config suse.de-clean-vi
clean_core suse.de-backup-rpmdb suse.de-cron-local
do_mandb suse.de-check-battery tetex
logrotate suse.de-clean-tmp updatedb
cron.hourly:
cron.monthly:
cron.weekly:
rsteff at dhcppc4:/etc>
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Thanks for the ideas.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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