> Any faults in that reasoning? GNU sort uses a merge sort with temporary files on disk. Not sure how much it keeps in memory during that, but it's probably less than 150MB. At some point the dirty limit should kick in and write back the data of the temporary files; so it's not quite the same as anonymous memory. But it's not that different given. It would be better to measure than to guess. At least Andrew's measurements on 128MB actually didn't show updatedb being really that big a problem. Perhaps some people have much more files or simply a less efficient updatedb implementation? I guess the people who complain here that loudly really need to supply some real numbers. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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