[ale] cron job?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed May 19 17:54:02 EDT 2010


looks like a standard "look for dead stuff" cron that has gone bad. This may
be feeding a locate db.

Kill it.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> I noticed things were.. a little slow, so I did an htop, and that showed
> a /usr/bin/find process getting 100% of my cpu.. ( 1-of-2 duo-core)
>
> what is this, and do I need it?
>
> nobody   20108 20100  0 08:04 ?        00:00:00 su
> nobody -s /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race      \( -fstype
> NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype
> binfmt_misc -o -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype
> iso9660 -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype
> ftpfs -o -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype shfs -o -fstype
> sysfs -o -fstype cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype
> usbfs -o -fstype udf -o -fstype ocfs2 -o      -type d -regex '\(^/tmp$\)\|
> \(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|
> \(^/var/spool$\)\|\(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\)\|\(^/var/lib/schroot/mount$\)'
> \) -prune -o -print0
> nobody   20109 20108  4 08:04 ?
> 00:00:18 /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype
> nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype binfmt_misc -o -fstype
> proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype
> ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -fstype
> devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype shfs -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype
> cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs -o -fstype
> udf -o -fstype ocfs2 -o -type d -regex \(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|
> \(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|\(^/var/spool$\)\|
> \(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\)\|\(^/var/lib/schroot/mount$\) ) -prune -o -print0
>
>
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