terminal sed, perl, find, sort

[merdrum21]

occasionally I find my harddrive racing and when I go into terminal I find that sed, perl, find, sort are running. I kill them and all is fine. does anyone know why this would happen?? I’m running 10.35 client. are these part of default cron scripts? I installed anacron awhile back but did not add anything to it not sure if that is why. thanks

[andrina]

Have a look at Activity Monitor – it’s very easy to see from there what the parent process of your sed/find/perl/sort process is if you inspect the suspect process. Should help you search out what exactly is hitting your drive so hard.

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