[ale] slocate updatedb locked files?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 17:30 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> The first time in October it was a file under the Oracle binaries
> directory.
> 
> This most recent time it was /usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/toolbar
> (actually that's the directory - I didn't try to do ls on it to see if
> it would hang on a specific file).  From my point of view this is "part
> of the Linux distro" in that it came in with my original install rather
> than as part of the Oracle install.
> 
> The latter is in /usr filesystem.  /dev/sda6
> The former was in /opt/oracle filesystem.  /dev/sda5.
> 
> Both are partitions of the same Dell PERC (Hardware) RAID 5 device.
> They are different sizes (5 GB and 12 GB respectively) and are both
> ext3.
> 
> Not really seeing any disk issues in general in demsg or messages.

I wonder if it's some issue number open files issue.  What does
"ulimit -n" report?

-Jim P.
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