Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
> I guess it is anacron or cron. > Look in your /etc/cron.daily: all these scripts are executed once a day, if > you have anacron running. It updates your htdig, locate, man-db, etc. > indexes. If you don't need a certain index just remove the executable bit > from the files or disable anacron i

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 12:33]: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 > Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this also and believe that it is updatedb (used by locate) > running in the background. I hardly ever turn my box off but if I do > the next day after I boot

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Robert Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2003 10:36 schrieb Rohan Nicholls: > I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a > gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. > > About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for abo

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a > gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. > > About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 > minutes slowing everyth

Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 minutes slowing everything down, and I was wondering if anyone has any idea what might be causing it. I run,