On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:41:06PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 15:12, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > since this is silly question I only want a short answer. > > > > Today I noticed a process using top with the name rred or rret owned by > > root. It eats up 70% of my cpu. Now he is gone. I can not find him neither > > with top nor with the systemguard from kde. > > > > What is this for an strange process. Do I have to worry the same way users > > from "the other os" have to? > > > > Thank you, W. Mader > I suspect you were running apt-get update at the time. This is the process > that processes the .pdiff files. It is thus friendly and not a concern.
What are these pdiff files, anyway? they started showing up with routine upgrades a month of two ago. There seem to ba an awful lot of them. I presume the Debian repositories are moving to some kind of RCS-like thing with their binary files, and I am getting a chain of differences. Is it documented somewhere? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
