On 7/26/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wrong, it's active on three of my boxes already :) But then again, i > never had these hangover problems. (not really expected with gigs of RAM > anyway) [...] > --- /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron.orig [...]
mlocate by design doesn't thrash the cache as much. People using slocate (distros other than Redhat ;) are going to be hit worse. See http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ updatedb by itself doesn't really bug me, its just that on occasion its still running at 7am which then doesn't assist my single spindle come swapin of the other apps! I'm considering getting one of the old ide drives out in the garage and shifting swap onto it. The swap prefetch patch has mainly assisted me in the "state A -> B -> A" scenario. A lot. -- Matt - 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/
