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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > But I've been telling poeple for a year that they should set > > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to zero during the updatedb run and afaik nobody has > > bothered to try it... > > I do not think such hacks are the right way to do. If updatedb does not > do that backup will or maybe your nightly tripwire run or some other > random application that walks file systems. Hacking all of them is just not > realistic. You need some way of not slowing down real-world applications by a factor of 1000. That is unacceptable, and the problems which updatedb and friends cause (just once per day!) pale in comparison. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org 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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