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) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org