On Thursday 11 February 2010 16:32:02 Dale wrote: > Can you nice the thing too? That would work. I set emerge to 5 and I > can't even tell that emerge is running most of the time. There may be > times when I can but it is rare. > > I just don't get this thing that indexing is a resource hog. I notice > updatedb running at night. I have 329Gbs of "data" and updatedb only > takes a few minutes. How is that a resource "hog"? My machine is not > as old as some but it is slow going by the new machines that are out > now. It's a AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram. I have had Linux on machines > as slow as 133MHz but never felt the need to disable indexing.
No need for any of that. Walter is just being a prick, talking out of a hole in his arse with the some total of "truth = 0" Apologies for the French. I cannot resist. Dimwits annoy me greatly. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
