Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control them? | From | Olaf Dietsche <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:58:46 +0200 |
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joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> writes:
> Please - can someone explain what happens here once a day when my machine > becomes completely unusable, a tremendous amount of disk i/o begins to occur, > and 'top' shows "run-parts" and "find" at > 80% cpu utilization. What are > they doing? Are they necessary? Can they be controlled. In Googling for > these answers first, all I see are compaints, but no answers. Can someone > PLEASE either explain what these are doing and how they are controlled, or > point me in the right direction? Many thanks.
This has nothing to do with the kernel. I guess, it's a cron job. Do a
$ grep find /etc/crontab /etc/cron*/*
and look wether one of the entries corresponds with the time when your machine becomes unusable.
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