On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:10:18AM -0400, Robert Tilley wrote: > This morning, when I woke my Debian box, activity was sluggish and gkrellm > showed my CPU usage to be 100%. > > Issuing a "top" revealed that a process called htdig was consuming 30+% of > system resources. The problem persisted as I visited bugs.kde.org, with > the htmerge and sort processes also ranking #1 and #2 in top system CPU use.
Nothing weird happened, htdig was indexing all your html files to make it possible to search in them. This happens in a cron job, usually late at night when you should be in bed :-) I moved it to 6:25, since it's rather frustrating if updatedb begins to run while I'm compiling! -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
