Hi, > 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. > > 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.
Just to clarify, it should be "slowed" my machine - my current machine has an SSD and no form of locate installed, all this is experience from 2 or more years ago. Since then I made sure that the experience does not repeat ;-) Kind regards Ralf -- 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/54228df7.4050...@ralfj.de
