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    SubjectRe: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23
    Rene Herman wrote:
    > 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.

    OK fair point, but the counter point that there are real patterns
    that just use-once a lot of metadata (ls, for example. grep even.)

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