well, not sure. But if you suddenly get a lot of work on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, the culprit is very likely to be a cron. RedHat distros always put a couple of I/O intensive daily cron. (update for locate, and makewhatis and some more) Removing them is one of the first things I do when I install rh on a low end box, or else, I end doing it 5 minutes (or more )after I notice a significantly slowdown on the machine and suddenly remember... -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
