Re: Limit hash table size

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> > 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.

I still think this needs to be on a per-process basis, rather than system
wide - it's updatedb that's the problem here, not the time of day. Personally, 
I'd just trigger on processes that were niced to hell, but I'm sure other
people have other ways.

M.

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