On 17/11/2010, at 3:07pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> ... >> Just ran updatedb with mlocate and it was blindingly fast! Is that >> normal or did it not run and tricked me! ;-) > > /usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.23.1/README.bz2 > > Why do so many people ask questions without reading the docs FIRST?
I'm not sure what that demonstrates. As I read that, it implies that mlocate's indexing will be fast because it uses the existing database during its updatedb operation. I'm going to have to read more about that, as it sounds rather clever. However Mick and myself were expressing surprise at the speed of mlocate's *first* run, when no mlocate.db would be existent. Stroller.
