swupdate process cramping CPU

[taco]

Hi –

All my XServes on 10.5.6 Server do the same thing. When I use Top under console for each server, softwareupdate is eating my CPU cycles. I have to manually kill that process. I have turned off all the automatic settings under System Preferences and the Software Update server for clients is not used.

How can I prevent softwareupdate from eating my CPU cycles?

[taco]

I got some more information to help explain my question.
This morning, my XServes were getting swamped by the sofwareupdate process again.
I went to TOP in terminal, found the PID and catted it out to a text file –

PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
25009 ?? Ss 707:30.42 softwareupdate -q -l -f /private/var/run/SoftwareUpdateStatus.plist

Utilization was running at anywhere from 80-95 percent.
I then went on the trail and found the plist file.

Here it is –


date
2009-04-30T18:40:11Z
phase
SCANNING
phaseStatus
INPROGRESS
pid
25009

So the softwareupdate thing may be stuck searching for things to update and just sits hogging my XServe’s CPU.

What would be the safest way to prevent this from occurring? Both XServes are used in a heavy production and they have to be at their best performance at all times.

Info on XServes –
10.5.6 Server
G5 duals
Bound to AD
Services running –
AFP, SMB

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