Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3104 mails)

[psims@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Sims)]

probably updatedb - uses find to rebuild the locatedb.

>last night I left my computer running and I came back
> to find my disk trashing.
> It took about 20 seconds to load up Task Manager and see what process
> was taking up so much of my resources.
> 
> It was find!
> 
> What was it finding - I don't know!  But I know it didn't find it!
> Why did it suddenly run?
> I didn't find any Cron jobs for it... or any reference to it any where.
> And I didn't start it.
> 
> It isn't the first time this has happened... but when it does it slows my
> machine to a crawl.
> 
> 
> Kevin Jackson
> Systems Administrator
> Telephone (01772) 706666 EXT 308
> James Hall & Co. (Southport) Ltd.

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