Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

From: Rene Herman
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 00:57:58 EST


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.

Rene.
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