Re: run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control them?

[Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>]

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.

Regards, Olaf.