[plug] FC3 running slowly with a lot of HDD activity

[Ari Finander]

> The issue in this case was anacron, which by default runs a locate
> database update sometime after boot. Anacron was starting it because
> cron missed it (scheduled for midnight).
> 
> Not sure if later RedHats/Fedoras still do this.

IIRC Fedora does updatedb at four am by default now. It's not this. I'm beginning to suspect it's some interaction between mozilla, the simlink to the mozilla user files on the RAID drives, and KwikDisk.

> 
> Of course, this might not be your issue. When it's busy, just use top
> to see what's doing all the work. That's how I caught it on my box.
> 

Thanks, I'll give that a shot next time



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