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From: Brian Jackson <brian@brianandsara.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control them?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:02:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307181402.54692.brian@brianandsara.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307180925.24867.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>

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.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-18 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-18 13:25 joe briggs
2003-07-18 12:58 ` Olaf Dietsche
2003-07-18 15:10 ` DervishD
2003-07-18 19:02 ` Brian Jackson [this message]

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