Doh!

[asmodeusb]

And now that its done, the hard drive was still thrashing.
The cause? Four copies of updatedb running.
Many many files also affect its run time in a very negative way.

Comments

[chezmax]

*four*??!

[asmodeusb]

Daily cron job which took > 24h to complete... apparently quite a bit more than 24h to have four of them.