"3265 du process" appears and disappears and occupies a lot of CPU System usage: what is that and how to remove that unknown process

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"3265 du process" appears and disappears and occupies a lot of CPU System usage: what is that and how to remove that unknown process

Opening the utility "activity monitor", I see a process that appears and disappears, called 3265 "du" process. It occupies a lot of CPU % system (the red one in the mac activity monitor utility). Anyone knows what's that and how can I remove it?

Probably the same issue of this discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1968751?start=0&tstart=0

But no idea about how to solve it!

MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Apr 16, 2013 1:47 PM

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ds store

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Apr 16, 2013 2:03 PM in response to Leavetobe2

BSD General Commands Manual

du -- display disk usage statistics

The du utility displays the file system block usage for each file argu-

ment and for each directory in the file hierarchy rooted in each direc-

tory argument. If no file is specified, the block usage of the hierarchy

rooted in the current directory is displayed.

To see for yourself use Terminal program enter: man du

press enter (to see the manual for "du")

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ds store

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Apr 16, 2013 2:05 PM in response to Leavetobe2

Something is calling it and might be in error, run through this list of fixes and tune up your machine.

..Step by Step to fix your Mac

https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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Apr 16, 2013 2:08 PM in response to ds store

Thank you: why this process isn't present in my other macbooks and the other hd quota? Is it possibile and useful (to get more cpu availability) to cancel it?

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