From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>
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?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:58:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lluwyos9.fsf@goat.bogus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307180925.24867.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> (joe briggs's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:25:24 -0400")
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 13:25 run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control them? joe briggs
2003-07-18 12:58 ` Olaf Dietsche [this message]
2003-07-18 15:10 ` DervishD
2003-07-18 19:02 ` Brian Jackson
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