At Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:56:31 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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?
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