Slocate/backup, big load on 2.4.X
Quoted 8 lines · Lukasz Trabinski
I'm sorry for little off-topic, but I sure that's problem with kernel. :( I have machine with two psyhical Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz (four logical CPU Hyperthreading, 4GB RAM + 4GB SWAP eth PRO/1000, 5x SEAGATE discs ST373453LW, Adaptec AIC79XX scsi controler).
System is RH 8.0, 7129 users authenticated by LDAP-PAM)
After 12 hours of reboot, when updatedb is running or backup via amanda, system "get" very high load, it's look like this:
the problem is
the problem is a RH 8.0(9 has it too) nasty bug with utf-8
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69900
for me LANG=" " instead LANG="en_US.UTF-8" at /etc/sysconfig/i18n made the system _a lot of lighter_. remember to use latest kernel 2.4.20-13.x
regards,
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