"find" Is Searching, Why?

About once a day I see my CPU useage going to 100%, and my hard disk get busy. When I press 'top' i see the 'Find' command is active by 'Nobody'. I can wait some minutes, also just kill it. I have no idea what it is, does other users have it too? What is is, is it wise to disable it, how?

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I'm useing Suse 10.0 GM, KDE3.5.
Thanks

About once a day I see my CPU useage going to 100%, and my hard disk get busy. When I press 'top' i see the 'Find' command is active by 'Nobody'.[/b]

I've seen it too (on SuSE-9.3). I don't know what it is doing. I typically kill it, but I'm not sure if that is wise.

You can try:

pstree

on a konsole and see to whom it belongs...?

You can try:

pstree

on a konsole and see to whom it belongs...?
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Nice . I didn't knew that command. The next time (I hope it's soon ) I will try it

Nice . I didn't knew that command. The next time (I hope it's soon ) I will try it
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Yup, there are PLENTY of commands to use... just like Win command line :lol:

find is a cron job assosiated with locate and updatedb. you can disable it, but then you have to manually updatedb before you use locate.

I usually uninstall the locatedb package to avoid this (search for locate in yast). I never use locate anyway; the rare occasion I need to search for something I'll wait a bit longer for find to find it... (As I understand it, locate is just a sort of quick find, using a database)

As I understand it, locate is just a sort of quick find, using a database[/b]

Yep. You can think of it as a sequential file scan (or disk scan) for find compared to a quick search of an index for locate. The latter is obviously a whole lot faster.

When I use pstree, the program 'find' dont show up. I did a search on my system and found '/etc/cron.daily/suse.de-updatedb', that's him. I'm going to disable it, I want to run updatedb after my weekly backup

Thanks for this clear information .