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gawk & updatedb
Name: eugensth Date: November 19, 2005 at 07:46:55 Pacific OS: Red Hat 8.0 CPU/Ram: AMD 450 Mhz 128 MB RAM
Comment:
I have a problem with 2 processes that start automatically and consume almost all resources when they run:updatedb and gawk. Updatedb can be killed with the kill command, but gawk cannot be killed and I have to shut down the X server to get rid of it.
I wonder how to configure the OS so that these 2 processes not bother me anymore.
And second,tell me if Linux has aplications for defragmentating file systems.
Name: jdieter Date: November 29, 2005 at 03:41:21 Pacific
Reply:
updatedb is a small program used by slocate clean up its database. If you don't use slocate, you can remove /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron, and it won't run anymove. gawk is a string-processing tool that is most likely being used by updatedb, so if your remove the above-mentioned file, you shouldn't have problems with it. The other option is to just let them both run.
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