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Check the following:

1) Are you running cron (crond)?
2) Are you running anacron?

When you boot a Linux machine on a daily basis or less frequent,
the unix daemon crond/anacron will start running jobs almost
immediately after you bot the machine.  These jobs are defined in
/etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.weekly (in RedHat).  Generally, these
are utilities like "slocate" that maintain a database of all system
files (for searching with locate).  They are optional tasks.

The easiest fix is to turn off anacron and crond (usually using
/usr/sbin/ntsysv).  Or you can edit the files in /etc/cron.daily to
remove the tasks that you don't want to be run.

     Randy


Beartooth wrote:

> 	Recently, whenever I boot up -- and often when I
> give some command -- the computer makes fervent whirring
> noises, and keeps the little red light either blinking fast,
> or on continuously (perhaps there are blinks so fast I can't
> see them), but without doing anything visible.
> 
> 	Sometimes the little yellow light on the bottom of
> the DSL modem also gets hyperactive, but mostly not.
> 
> 	Meanwhile, the machine gets very sluggish or
> altogether unresponsive to commands. You click on something
> in the GUI, or give a command in an xterm, and it either
> takes no notice ever at all, or goes on for several minutes
> absorbed in its churning before it responds.
> 
> 	That got steadily worse, even though I shutdown
> every evening and reboot in the morning;  then recently it
> refused to boot, requiring me first to "run fsck manually,
> without -a or -p." Took me a while to realize it meant to
> command "fsck /var", though I had figured out from a manual
> what "manually, i.e. without -a or -p" meant. I finally did
> that, and told it yes whenever it asked "fix?" (figuring I
> had nothing to lose); now it works again, but the churning
> is still there.
> 
> 	Fwiw, I'm running three betas, and probably
> shouldn't be : Galeon 0.11.3, Opera 6.0B2, and Pan 0.11.2 --
> is that the trouble? Do I just need to run solider releases,
> even if it be of lesser software? Or have I messed up some
> other way? (It doesn't seem to help much to arrange for the
> startx command not to launch any of the betas.)
> --
> RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
> retiree & linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2
> Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.
> 
> 


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