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
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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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