Hey Eric, On 7/24/07, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric St-Laurent wrote: > On Wed, 2007-25-07 at 06:55 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > >>It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the >>point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone complain >>about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the first place. If >>anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply disable updatedb, the >>problem will for a large part be solved. >> >>This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few similar >>loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media player indexing >>a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard of problems _other_ >>than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy. > > >>From my POV there's two different problems discussed recently: > > - updatedb type of workloads that add tons of inodes and dentries in the > slab caches which of course use the pagecache. > > - streaming large files (read or copying) that fill the pagecache with > useless used-once data
No, there's a third case which I find the most annoying. I have multiple working sets, the sum of which won't fit into RAM. When I finish one, the kernel had time to preemptively swap back in the other, and yet it didn't. So, I sit around, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my music player to come back to life, or thunderbird, or... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
