Messages in this thread | | | From | Brian Jackson <> | Subject | Re: run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control them? | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:02:54 -0500 |
| |
Look for updatedb in your cron jobs. That's usually what causes a bunch of find activity for me. You can either diable them or setup /etc/updatedb.conf to prune some fs's/path's that don't need to be slocate'd. HTH
--Brian Jackson
On Friday 18 July 2003 08:25 am, joe briggs wrote: > 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.
-- OpenGFS -- http://opengfs.sourceforge.net Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |