"find" process"

What does the "find" process do? Spotlight isn't indexing nor are time machine or idisk doing anything at the time, but "find" is using 75% of CPU.
I had opened up Activity Monitor to look at something else and found the find process using up 75% of the process, then makwhatis came on and "find" settled down.

Just to add a bit, you happened to look at Activity Monitor when the weekly maintenance script was running. That one updates the locate database (which runs find to create the database), and then moves on to rebuild the "whatis" database. Depending on much stuff you have it may take awhile to run.
Francine
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"find" process User =nobody [?], using up to 90% of CPU = G5Quad [??? !]

This one is for the PPC G5 Quad pros:
Had been working for hours on my Mac Pro (different machine, I know) with my networked G5 Quad supposedly idling in the background.
The only open applications on the G5 Quad are Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Bridge CS4, the main reason for my keeping the G5 at this point, because of vital plug-ins that are not Intel-compatible and are absolutely irreplaceable and mandatory. (I do have Ps CS5 and CS6 on the Mac Pro. Both aforementioned applications had no open documents. I have not actually used then in about six weeks, so the chance of Bridge building or rebuilding caches id very low.
Alerted by a sudden, very substantial increase of fan and liquid pump activity in my essentially idle G5 Quad, I switched the shared monitors inputs to it and was not surprised by the temperatures, almost all showing no more than 49ºC/121º.
Launched the Activity Monitor, which was showing a Process named "find" owned by a User named "nobody" using up to 90º% of the CPU column.
Terminated said process, only to see it become active again a short time (few minutes) later.
While typing this post, with interruptions, (20 minutes or so) the "nobody" user disappeared, as did the "find" process. some 15 minutes later, the fan and pump activity ended, returning to the G5's normal vigorous hum.
It has been running normally for about 30 minutes now, with very quiet sound levels.
Obviously, I'm mystified because all of this is above my pay grade.
I have a bunch of questions:
1.— Why on Earth is/was there a user named "nobody" working my machine so hard? What or who can it be?
2.— What is a "find" process, especially on a supposedly idle machine?
2.— Any chance my computer has been hacked and overtaken by a "third party"?
3.— Should I be worried? I am.
4.— What steps would you recommend I take at this point?
Thanks in advance to all. I look forward to hearing from old Apple forum friends. 
2.5 GHz Power Mac (PPC) G5-Quad; 16GB RAM; mutant, flashed 550MHz nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 1,700MHz 512MB VRAM; ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D LP SCSI card; Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.8 boot drives; intrusive Spotblight, Dashboard and Time Machine permanently disabled; dual 22"CRT/22"LCD monitors; USB wireless 'N' available but connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet; 2 SCSI scanners (one tabloid-size transparency scanner and a film scanner); various internal & external HDs; FW Epson 2200 and Ethernet Samsung ML-2850ND printers; 2 X Back-UPS RS 1500 XS units.
Intel Xeon Mac_Pro1,1 [late 2006] 2.66 GHz Quad; 16 GB RAM; mutant/flashed, factory-overclocked 875/1225 "Apple PowerColor" ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1 GB of GDDR5VRAM driving side-by-side dual 22" CRT/24"LCD monitors in Extended-Desktop mode; Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8 boot drives; intrusive Spotlight and frivolous Dashboard permanently disabled; USB wireless 'n' available but connected to the Internet and networked via wired Ethernet.
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Gee… I should have done my due diligence frst.
Niel had already answered the very same question here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21746515#21746515
My bad.
Thank you, Niel. Please say at least "Hi !" here so I can give you your well deserve points here as I cannot do it in the other thread.

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