Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:12:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 |
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, 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.
but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and waiting for find to complete on a regular basis.
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