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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. Rene. - 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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