Le Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:22:11PM +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > On Sep 23, Ralf Jung <p...@ralfj.de> wrote: > > > I've seen multiple machines, including older machines of myself, to be > > under full disk load for at least several minutes due to (some form of) > > locate - every time the cronjob runs. The slowdown was noticeable, > This is hard to believe, since the cron job uses ionice -c3.
Hi Marco and everybody, I had a similar experience with ‘tracker’, GNOME's equivalent of locate, which also runs under ionice. Unfortunately I can not recall if during the years I used the systems where the slowdown was noticeable I had changed something relevant in the configuration of the hard drive (like running a hdparm command) or if it was pristine. The common thing between these machines was a loud and slow hard drive: I never had this problem with a SSD (but again, on SSD I run more recently installed systems where I am sure that I never used hdparm). Anyway, the point I want to make is that we should trust Ralf when he reports that full disk load slows his machine despite cron jobs using ionice, although this is probably a corner case. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140923223434.ga9...@falafel.plessy.net
