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[ILUG] Updatedb

[ILUG] Updatedb

Donncha O Caoimh donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com
Thu Apr 15 09:23:58 IST 1999


Yep - load of 38 once, when I sent a couple of thousand requests to
apache (using "ab") for mysql generated pages.. Still lived to tell the
tale though :)

Donncha

Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 
> Actually make that 18.25 - I just checked :0
> Can anyone top that? (probably can, but I'm still
> chuffed :)
> 
> Steve
> 
> Stephen Shirley wrote:
> >
> > Mornin',
> >         I've just seen my highest load ever on my 486 linux box - 17.68 :-) I
> > had set updatedb set to run 3 times a week, but for some reason it
> > decided that it would launch itself ~35 times and really grind the disk.
> > After about an hour I noticed that the machine was reeeaaallllyy slow,
> > and the hard drive was still grinding. Doh!! I was using linuxconf, but
> > it's obviously not as foolproof as I'd hoped :-)




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