Re: what program is running find that is taking up so much of my cpu time this morning?

[Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>]

HI,

Juan Sierra Pons wrote:
> 2011/7/8 Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>:
> > ps aux|grep find
> I think it is /etc/cron.daily/mlocate wichi internally runs updatedb -
> "update a database for mlocate"
>
> Check your /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.

If it is mlocate, then you may want to exclude areas from the database.

For instance, I use rsnapshot and this area is one that I don't want 
"indexed" because it isn't necessary, so I simply exclude it.  You may 
have other areas that wouldn't benefit from an index update.

See your /etc/updatedb.conf to prune some areas ...

Cheers

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Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP