Subject: Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: jonathan@jonmasters.org
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:43:03 -0500
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On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:36 +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm fed up with those finds running whenever I power on. Has anyone
> written an equivalent of the Microsoft indexing service to update
> locate's database?
> 
> I know about Beagle and friends but I'd be interested in whatever I'm
> missing that specifically solves the above problem - I'm sure it's
> been done :-)

updatedb runs at nice 20 on most distros, and with the CFQ scheduler the
IO priority follows the nice value, so why does it still kill the
machine?

Lee

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