I belive that is a daily cron job that gets run to update the 'locate'
database of all files on all mounted file systems.
As root, use crontab to adjust when this gets run (ie. you could push it
to 3am).
-jhs-
On Mon, 18 May 1998, David Spencer wrote:
> Every morning, about 1am, my disk goes bananas and top shows that nobody
> is doing a find and a sort, presumably find ... | sort > ... Anyone got
> any ideas what nobody is looking for, and how I can tell him to get
> stuffed or do it when I'm not using the machine? I've grepped all over
> the place but the words "needle" and "haystack" come to mind... :-(
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave.
>
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