On 2/11/2016 9:00 AM, Byron Boulton wrote: > Does anyone here have success using `updatedb` and `locate` in cygwin? I > use `locate` heavily on my Linux machines, but everytime I've tried to > run `updatedb` on cygwin I've given up and killed the process because it > is taking too long. Is there something wrong with cygwin's > implementation of `updatedb` making it not work at all or making it > slower that on my Linux machines? Or are there others who have success > using it on cygwin?
Processing every file on the drive will be slow just because it's Windows. Initializing the database with updatedb will require a large amount of time. There are processes such as AntiVirus intrusion protection that might make it even slower. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
