On 07/25/2007 06:06 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:

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> Ray Lee wrote:

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>> 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.
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