At Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:56:31 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Do you have anything running that would try to read all the files and build a > > search index - like beagle? There's also the nightly run of updatedb but that > > just reads the filenames and normally nfs mounts are excluded. > > There is no package beagle installed, I don't know if any other software > doing this is part of a standard CentOS install. Definitely not updatedb, > mlocate.cron runs once a day in the early morning, but the load pattern > we see is a continuous increase. What IS running on the problem machine? Is it a web server? Someone's Desktop? (If it is a personal Desktop box, what is the person running -- are they running find all of the time? Or doing some 'lets update 5 zillion files now' type of task?) A database server? Something else? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos