Rene Herman wrote:
On 07/25/2007 06:06 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
Ray Lee wrote:
Anyway, my point is that I worry that tuning for an unusual and
infrequent workload (which updatedb certainly is), is the wrong way
to go.
Well it runs every day or so for every desktop Linux user, and it has
similarities with other workloads.
It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the
point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone complain
about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the first place. If
anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply disable updatedb, the
problem will for a large part be solved.
This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few
similar loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media
player indexing a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard of
problems _other_ than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy.
OK fair point, but the counter point that there are real patterns
that just use-once a lot of metadata (ls, for example. grep even.)
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