Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[Nick Piggin]

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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