On Jan 16, 2008 11:58 PM, Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nice -n 10 updatedb.findutils > > and top reporting the find command running with nice level 10, I would > still get an unresponsive system with 99.9 percent cpu going to find.
Find doesn't normally use that much CPU. 2% would be more usual. Is the CPU being used in user context (find) or in system context (the kernel)? > At the time, find was searching through a vfat filesystem. Could you provide some more details? Perhaps by using a command like this: strace -ttt -T -p (the PID of the find process) > The problem seems to be deeper than the locate utility as no process > that has a nice level of 10 should bring everything else to a virtual > halt. This is largely true, but my guess is that the find process is still using a tiny amount of user CPU time, and that the problem is somethere in how it is interacting with the VFAT filesystem. James. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
