[Techtalk] updatedb hard drive thrashing

[Glen Strom]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:56:29 +0100
Meredydd <meredydd at everybuddy.com> wrote:

> This, as people have explained, is fairly normal behaviour, and rather
> vital. However, it's unusual for it to run at any time when you're
> awake...normally it's set to run at 4 in the morning or something.
> 
I haven't used Red Hat in a while, but the last version I used (7.2)
came with Anacron pre-set. Since Red Hat probably still has Anacron,
it's not unusual for the updates to occur during the day.