Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 1 May 2005, sly wrote:
>
>> i installed fc3 1 week ago and since some weired things are happening.
>> out of nowhere the hdd starts going off like crazy, the cpu runs at
>> 100%, the temperature goes up. all these are caused by "makewhatis".
>> witch i don't know how it started and why. and worst of all is that i
>> can't kill it! anybody had experience this?
>
>
> It's part of regular daily system maintenance. makewhatis creates a
> database of summaries of man pages to answer queries like "man -k",
> "apropos", and "whatis". It's fairly disk-intensive, but shouldn't take
> more than a few minutes.
thanx a lot for the info. i will remove it because is on my laptop and it kills the performance for few minutes and i don't use "apropos" that often on my laptop.
>
> The other disk-intensive daily operation is updatedb, which builds the
> database for "locate". That command lists paths to all files where the
> path containts a particular string. It's much faster than "find", but
> requires an up-to-date database. Again, it shouldn't take more than a
> few minutes each day.
>
> You can shut these off if you want by removing scripts in
> /etc/cron.daily, but you will find that the usefulness of the commands
> these databases support will decay over time--if you don't run updatedb
> regularly, you won't be able to "locate" files added since the last
> updatedb, and if you don't run makewhatis, you won't be able to
> "apropos" man pages added after the last makewhatis.
>
sly.
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