Package: mlocate
Version: 0.21.1-1
Severity: normal
Hello
I noticed that my system stalls when cron jobs are run.
My suspicion is that updatedb causes swapping and effectively stops any
running applications.
Setting nice as well as ionice seems to alleviate the issue.
I suggest adding the nice setting to the script as it should not harm
anything and makes my system usable while updatedb is running.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (295,
'experimental'), (290, 'stable-i386'), (280, 'testing-i386'), (270,
'unstable-i386'), (150, 'experimental-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc4-r600fence-netpollirq-smbinit-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mlocate depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
mlocate recommends no packages.
mlocate suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate changed:
set -e
[ -x /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate ] || exit 0
LOCKFILE="/var/lib/mlocate/daily.lock"
trap "rm -f $LOCKFILE" EXIT
if [ -e "$LOCKFILE" ]; then
echo >&2 "Warning: $LOCKFILE present, not running today."
exit 1
else
touch "$LOCKFILE"
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/ionice ] &&
/usr/bin/ionice -c3 true 2>/dev/null; then
IONICE="/usr/bin/ionice -c3"
fi
nice -n 20 $IONICE /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate
-- no debconf information
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