Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2005 17:01:03 +0530 | | From | Hari N <> | | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance |
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On 31 May 2005 13:14:45 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: > > Are you sure it is not only disk IO? In theory updatedb shouldn't > need much CPU, but it eats a lot of memory and causes stalls > in the disk (or at least that was my interpration on the stalls I saw) > If there is really a scheduling latency problem with updatedb > then that definitely needs to be fixed in the stock kernel.
Yeah true...I have actually never observed updatedb taking much of my CPU cycles. It just eats up a lot of memory. When the load average on the system is high, sometimes updatedb even results in a system freeze.
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