updatedb.mlocate locking up computer after boot

[tomcloyd]

I usually start each day with a reboot. A very few minutes after the OS is running updatedb.mlocate launches itself and grabs virtually all the CPU cycles. I cannot seem to get control of this, and I don't know how to get it to stop being so greedy. This sort of machine-takeover was one of many reasons why I abandoned Microsoft years ago.

I assume it's checking for updates. I've tried to get control of the process by fiddling with Software & Updates. Here's my settings:



I'm getting nowhere with this problem. It literally takes a number of minutes before I can resume doing whatever I was doing before my box was stolen by this pesky program. Really irritating, and it's been going on since the last ice age.

Help!

[vinnywright]

updatedb.mlocate has nothing to do with Software & Updates.

it's a search database used by the "locate" program
you should let it run once all the way through though I don’t know why it is being so heavy on your CPU ...........you can start it yourself with

sudo updatedb

it's cron job is in /etc/cron.daily

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:/etc/cron.daily$ ls
0anacron  apt       bsdmainutils      dpkg           google-talkplugin  logrotate  mlocate  popularity-contest  update-notifier-common               
apport    aptitude  cracklib-runtime  google-chrome  libvirt-bin        man-db     passwd   samba               upstart

the one named "mlocate" ,,you can change(turn off) the exicutable bit if you do not want it to run .

however it is a useful tool to find a file by name

exampel:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ locate DORNC
/home/vinny/DORNC-PH#
/home/vinny/DORNC-recete.pdf

O thats right,,,,,,it wasn’t IN Documents ............

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

What vinny says. "locate" is too powerful a tool to remove or disable. Once its "sudo updatedb" is down rebuilding its index database it is lightening fast, and rarely eats too much cpu when the cron task takes off. At least on my system, and I'm running an i7 cpu with 6GB of RAM.