Re: How to trace why a process is running?
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:23:46PM -0800, Eric House wrote:
> I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top'
> which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. 'ps -ef',
> even as root, doesn't show the 'find'.
>
> Question: how do I figure out who started that 'find' and why?
I guess /etc/cron.daily/find was running, it is started by cron
to update the database used by 'locate'.
You should use 'ps fax', ax to see all processes and f to see the
relationship between them.
Regards,
Lipo
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Roland E. Lipovits
Vienna, Austria
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