On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Doug Summers wrote:

> I'm getting the daily cron jobs from OpenPKG hanging on some machines, 
> sometimes nearly killing the CPU. Here's a sample from one machine that 
> was unusable:
> 
> ps -ef | grep openpkg
[...]
> root      7299  7296 91 Aug16 ?        1-06:50:42 /openpkg/bin/find / ( 
> -fstype devfs -o -fstype proc -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype devpts -o 
> -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs -o -fstype supermount -o -fstype ocfs -o 
> -fstype auto -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype hsfs -o -fstype iso9660 -o 
> -fstype afs -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype
[...]
> root     17653 17651 84 00:00 ?        08:18:05 /openpkg/bin/find / ( 
> -fstype devfs -o -fstype proc -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype devpts -o 
> -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs -o -fstype supermount -o -fstype ocfs -o 
> -fstype auto -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype hsfs -o -fstype iso9660 -o 
> -fstype afs -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype n
> 
> This machine has only been up for 2 days and the find commands are 
> locked up tight. I've had this happen on both a HPUX 11.11 and RHEL3 
> machine (this output is from RHEL3).

This are apparently updatedb processes from the findutils.
You can try to look with strace (e.g. strace -p 7299), what they are
doing. Did you modify rc.findutils ?


   (mk)

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