[ALUG] High CPU usage for sudo?

[Mark Rogers]

Mark Rogers wrote:
> According to top on my desktop:
>      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>    18387 root      20   0  2876  976  952 R 83.3  0.1   3291:33 
> sudo                                                                                                                   
>

Ah, found it:
    $ ps ax | grep sudo
    18387 pts/3    R    3293:11 sudo updatedb
    31096 pts/3    R+     0:00 grep sudo

It seems I kicked off updatedb some time ago (3293 mins is 2+ days of 
CPU time). Sounds like maybe it's stuck somewhere....

Is there anything I can do to find out where it's stuck to fix it? I 
haven't killed the process yet (although I think I'll have to pause it 
to get some CPU back).

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