To: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control
 them?
References: <200307180925.24867.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>
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.

Regards, Olaf.
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