update using 99% of the cpu

From: Franc Carter <franc_at_mml.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:57:35 +1000

When a certain process runs on our machine (gauss) update starts using
99% of a CPU. Does anyone know if this is normal and/or whether it would
safe to replace the update process with sync's from cron as hinted at
in the update manual.

We are running 4.0e, patch kit 1 on an 8400.

thanks

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Franc Carter                            MEMLab, University of Sydney
Ph: 61-2-9351-7819                      Fax: 9351-6461

Received on Wed Aug 11 1999 - 23:02:44 NZST