Performance Question

[UserName]

Hi everyone. I just tonight, finally, made my vBulletin live - woo hoo! Ok. Now, I'm going to be bugging you people about fine tuning the server for performance. I've read all of the posts, but I'm sure I'll have more questions. Here's my first:

When I was watching the server using the "top" command, I noticed that something called "slocate" was hogging some system resources for a while, then it went away. I am wondering what that is and why it came and went. I assume that it is vBulletin or MySQL related because I didn't notice if before. I looked for it in my MySQL book, but couldn't find it. Thanks for any info!

[wandrer]

slocate builds a database of files on your system.
try
slocate slocate
as an example query.
see
man 1 slocate
man 1 locate
man 1 updatedb
for more details.
Usually the task is performed when you are asleep or
way behind a deadline :)



From: http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/1999.07/msg00091.html


slocate searches through a central database (updated nightly) for files
which match a given glob pattern. This allows you to quickly find files
anywhere on your system.


From: http://lug.org.cn/rpm2html/rawhide.redhat.com/slocate-1.4-2.i386.html