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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