18 Aug
2004
18 Aug
'04
02:11
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 04:06, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have just installed SuSE 9.1 Pro on my system. Periodically a job is started in the background of which I have not found the source. Can someone explain to me what is going on when the following is running?
(following capture is from top): PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10181 nobody 34 19 1528 752 1244 D 4.0 0.1 0:03.34 find
When something is run periodically, your best bet is to look at the cron jobs. At 4.15am, the daily jobs are run. One of these is "updatedb", which updates your locate database, so you can use "locate" to find files quickly. That is what you're seeing above