Re: [PLUG] gzip and CPU usage

["Randy Schmidt" <x@altorg.com>]

Woohooo! I found the problem...much thanks for the ps afx advice. When
I was initially setting up the backup script and testing it, I had set
it up in the root crontab to run every five minutes and then forgot
about it. When I set up the final backup script, I set it in the
regular user crontab to run every two hours. It was also dumping the
backups in the root home folder so I never saw the ones running every
five minutes...until now.

Thanks again!
Randy

On 11/1/06, Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/06, Randy Schmidt <x@altorg.com> wrote:
> >
> > Any ideas how to locate what is causing gzip to run when I don't want
> > it to and also is there a way to keep gzip from using up all of the
> > cpu? Is there a way of limiting it? I don't care if it takes 10 times
> > as long to create the archive.
>
> Yes.  To locate the gzip process, try using "ps afx" or simalar.  The
> key thing is the "f" switch, which shows the "family" relationships
> between processes.  You'll be able to see what process is calling
> gzip.
>
> For slowing it down, the "nice" command will probably help.  I'd
> recommend checking out the manpage for nice.
>
> -- Doug
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