CUPS problem

[Garry T. Williams]

On Sunday 26 August 2007 06:03:22 PerAntonRønning wrote:
> Tim wrote:

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> and the program at the top when
> it froze was "updateb".

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> The posting suggested to disable the updatep program, but I am not sure
> whether there will be other side-effects of this. Anyone know?

The updatedb program updates the database used by the locate(1)
command.  Disabling its running in cron will only result in incomplete
results when you run the locate command.  Nothing more.

> I also got a tip from a friend of mine, who runs MAC. He also had a
> similar kind of instability, and after running a memory analysis
> program he discovered faulty memory.

That is a far more likely cause.

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