On Monday 06 July 2009, "fabian" <fabian at baladia.gov.kw> wrote: > now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily > directory so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to > almost 99 % for almost 6 hrs > but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance > or any perfomance issue and my system will run perfect without the file If that script is running for more than a few seconds you must have a lot of stuff in your tmp directory. You should probably fix that problem instead of disabling the script. All it does is cleanup cruft in temporary directories. -- Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world, is either a madman or an economist.