[ale] slocate updatedb locked files?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:41 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Some time back (mid-October) we noticed a dramatic increase in CPU
> load during a weekend.   On researching this we were able to trace it
> back to a file on an ext3 filesystem that would cause any process that
> attempted to access it to hang (thereby adding to the runq).  Since
> the slocate cron job ran every day as did an incremental or full
> backup they too would get hung and add to the runq.  This was the
> first time such an issue had been noted in over a year of running this
> RH AS 3 system.   The issue was solved by rebooting the server.   The
> file in question was easily accessible after the reboot.

Was the file local or on a mounted share?  Have you tried fsck'ing the
partition that the file resides on?

-Jim P.

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