On Monday 24 Mar 2008, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > Hello, > today I noticed heavy disk utilization. I did top to find this:- > ********************************************************************* >* nobody 10204 10203 6 10:06 ? 00:00:05 /usr/bin/find / > -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o > -fstype > ********************************************************************* >* > > can somebody kindly throw some light on this _nobody_ and what is he > doing on my m/c?
Looks like some system cron job for updating databases. Can't say more unless we know which distribution. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
