Mystery solved.
Using "tree" view in ksysguardd showed it to be cron running updatedb.
My thanks to everyone who replied to this.
Richard  
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 19:04, Jason Ahrens wrote:
> On November 10, 2004 10:25, Richard Pace wrote:
> > Running SuSE 9.1 and KDE 3.2.3.
> >
> > I leave my PC on most of the time.  I usually have ksysguardd running. 
> > Every morning around 4am (I get up early) a "find" process is running under
> > login "nobody".  I associate a "sort"  and "sh" process under "root" with
> > this activity as well (when the "find" process ends, these two go away
> > also).
> >
> > The "find" process runs for about 10 minutes and really chews up CPU.
> >
> > How do I determine what is launching this process?  I don't recall setting
> > up any scheduled processes - I wouldn't know how (maybe inadvertently?).
> 
> I'll almost guarantee it's updatedb. When I first started running Linux back 
> 10 years ago, I noticed the same thing.
> 
> I find that if I 'nice 19' updatedb, things slow down some (it's still IO 
> intensive) but the system doesn't chug.
> 
> Jason
> 
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