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SubjectRe: Limit hash table size
>> > 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.

I still think this needs to be on a per-process basis, rather than system
wide - it's updatedb that's the problem here, not the time of day. Personally,
I'd just trigger on processes that were niced to hell, but I'm sure other
people have other ways.

M.

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