find - sort - locate.big...
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Time to time, while I am working on XCode,
I hear a disk activity, so I launch the Terminal and type "top"
and I see that the "find" command is taking 86% of the CPU. Then the command
"sort", then the command "located.big" , then "located.cod".
Do you know what's that? Is it a normal activity or could it be dangerous
for my code?
Best Regards
--
Lorenzo
email: <archidea...> -
Lorenzo wrete :> Time to time, while I am working on XCode,
> I hear a disk activity, so I launch the Terminal and type "top"
> and I see that the "find" command is taking 86% of the CPU. Then
> the command
> "sort", then the command "located.big" , then "located.cod".
I think it's because of the weekly cleanup task of the system. Each
week the system reconstruct the locate database (for use with the
command "locate"), which is very disk/cpu consuming.
--
Damien Bobillot -
I noticed the same thing - and to make it really a laugh the user was
listed as "nobody". if its an apple app doing that then someone at
apple has a sense of humor... I was thinking it might be some sort of
virus... why would nobody be running such an intense search of my hard
drive?
On May 13, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Lorenzo wrote:> Time to time, while I am working on XCode,
> I hear a disk activity, so I launch the Terminal and type "top"
> and I see that the "find" command is taking 86% of the CPU. Then the
> command
> "sort", then the command "located.big" , then "located.cod".
>
> Do you know what's that? Is it a normal activity or could it be
> dangerous
> for my code?
>
>
> Best Regards
> --
> Lorenzo
> email: <archidea...>
>
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Thanks for clarifying that Kay... ;) now I don't have to reload the
system, call interpol. etc.
Must be xcode building a symbol cache or something like that.
On May 14, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Kay Roepke wrote:>
> On 14. May 2006, at 6:03 Uhr, Lon Giese wrote:
>
>> I noticed the same thing - and to make it really a laugh the user was
>> listed as "nobody". if its an apple app doing that then someone at
>> apple has a sense of humor... I was thinking it might be some sort
>> of virus... why would nobody be running such an intense search of my
>> hard drive?
>
> 'nobody' in UNIX-systems is normally used to run programs that should
> not be able to write to any important system or user data. A security
> thing. :)
> Sorry, but there's no humor involved...
>
> -k
> -
On May 13, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Lorenzo wrote:> Time to time, while I am working on XCode,
> I hear a disk activity, so I launch the Terminal and type "top"
> and I see that the "find" command is taking 86% of the CPU. Then
> the command
> "sort", then the command "located.big" , then "located.cod".
>
> Do you know what's that? Is it a normal activity or could it be
> dangerous
> for my code?
It is the locate database being rebuilt/updated. By running as user
nobody, the commands have minimal access to security critical areas
of the system.
See 'man locate'.
x-man-page://locate
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