>> My system is going haywire! I just installed Linux, and I haven't put
>> anything on it. Yet this is what "ps" shows:
>>
>
>>[...]
>> nobody 613 98.8 0.3 844 460 ? R Apr 14 1449:55 find / (
>> -fstype nfs
>>[...]
>See all those processes being run by nobody?
>
>They're updating your locate database. This usually happens as part of
>a cronjob. I believe the default in RH is to have it run at 3:00am
>every morning. Other distros do something similar. Nothing to worry about.
nothing to worry about, unless it's been going on for over a day worth
of cpu time, which that process has been. james, as root run
killall -9 find
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