> I find that my RH 5.0 machine will run at really slow when the
> time reach about midnight! (01:00)
>
> I use 'top' to find that there is a job 'find' run by nobody which
> take up about 9X.X% CPU time. I think the problem is come from crontab,
> Do anyone have idea to fix it? or improve it?!
>
That's your locate database being updated. Next time you need to find a
file instead of using find try "locate filename" and it'll check the
database instead of the whole filesystem. Much faster and less disk work.
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