Frenzying disk activity

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 05:41, Alexander Apprich wrote:
> Hi Catalin,
> 
> Doru-Catalin Togea wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I leave my FC2 machine on at night and after about 8 hours of inactivity
> > it starts some insane hardisk activity. This activity takes about one hour
> > to complete and the PC is extremely little responsive while it is doing
> > it. At the end of this activity, all my applications are closed down and I
> > am logged out.
> > 
> > I wonder what this could be and how necessary it is?
> > 
> > I know RH9 used to do an updatedb and some other things at 4 a.m., but
> > this happens arround 6 or 7 a.m. and it takes soooo awfully long and it
> > logs me out.
> > 
> > Any ideas what it can be?
> > 
> 
> If you know the time when this happens, check /var/log/messages to see
> if the application(s) did some logging.
> 
> Also check for root's and other users crontab to see if there is
> something scheduled for the night...
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Catalin
> > 
> 
> Just a thought...
> 
> Alex
I suspect that updatedb (as noted "some application") is what is the
culprit. 

Check also the system crontab.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>