06 Aug 2009
0800 Friday morning, machine is slow… why?
Random disk I/O, evolution doing a table scan again, and popularity contest fighting with it by reading in many many inodes.
9729 be/6 nobody 183.44 K/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % perl -w /usr/sbin/popularity-contest
Time for pop-con to go – while I like giving statistics about use, this isn’t the first time its chosen to get in my way.