On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, 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.
but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and
waiting for find to complete on a regular basis.
David Lang
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