Re: Limit hash table size

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > But I've been telling poeple for a year that they should set
>  > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to zero during the updatedb run and afaik nobody has
>  > bothered to try it...
> 
>  I do not think such hacks are the right way to do. If updatedb does not
>  do that backup will or maybe your nightly tripwire run or some other
>  random application that walks file systems. Hacking all of them is just not 
>  realistic.

You need some way of not slowing down real-world applications by a factor
of 1000.  That is unacceptable, and the problems which updatedb and friends
cause (just once per day!) pale in comparison.


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