looks like a standard "look for dead stuff" cron that has gone bad. This may be feeding a locate db.<br><br>Kill it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I noticed things were.. a little slow, so I did an htop, and that showed<br>
a /usr/bin/find process getting 100% of my cpu.. ( 1-of-2 duo-core)<br>
<br>
what is this, and do I need it?<br>
<br>
nobody 20108 20100 0 08:04 ? 00:00:00 su<br>
nobody -s /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race \( -fstype<br>
NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype<br>
binfmt_misc -o -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype<br>
iso9660 -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype<br>
ftpfs -o -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype shfs -o -fstype<br>
sysfs -o -fstype cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype<br>
usbfs -o -fstype udf -o -fstype ocfs2 -o -type d -regex '\(^/tmp$\)\|<br>
\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|<br>
\(^/var/spool$\)\|\(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\)\|\(^/var/lib/schroot/mount$\)'<br>
\) -prune -o -print0<br>
nobody 20109 20108 4 08:04 ?<br>
00:00:18 /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype<br>
nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype binfmt_misc -o -fstype<br>
proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype<br>
ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -fstype<br>
devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype shfs -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype<br>
cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs -o -fstype<br>
udf -o -fstype ocfs2 -o -type d -regex \(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|<br>
\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|\(^/var/spool$\)\|<br>
\(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\)\|\(^/var/lib/schroot/mount$\) ) -prune -o -print0<br>
<br>
<br>
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