On 1/26/06, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've noticed how something on my Fedora3 seems to be
> thrashing the hard drive(s) very hard and long--just
> like a Windows box being rifled through by a virus
> checker or a find started at /. What could it be?




slocate cron job running?

check /etc/cron.daily for slocate.cron.  Then  see if the times in the
/etc/crontab for the daily jobs match up with the times that your HD start
thrashing ....
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