From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270227AbTGRMLk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:11:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270228AbTGRMLg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:11:36 -0400 Received: from 65-124-64-15.rdsl.ktc.com ([65.124.64.15]:16825 "EHLO csi.csimillwork.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270227AbTGRMLd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:11:33 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: joe briggs Organization: BMS To: Subject: run-parts,find, kupdated: What are they and how to control them? Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:25:24 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200307180925.24867.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Joe Briggs Briggs Media Systems 105 Burnsen Ave. Manchester NH 01304 USA TEL 603-232-3115 FAX 603-625-5809 MOBILE 603-493-2386 www.briggsmedia.com