Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[david]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, 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.

but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and 
waiting for find to complete on a regular basis.

David Lang
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