Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:00:15 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 |
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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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