On Jan 3, 2008 8:14 AM, Timo Jyrinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Jones kirjoitti: > > Speaking for myself, I regularly use slocate to find things that are > > outside my home directory (not that I use tracker for things that are in > > my home directory - I put them where they are, so I know where they are ;) > > I also use slocate sometimes, and I don't use tracker myself at the > moment since I know where my files generally are. > > But: if The GUI search tool nowadays is tracker, and any ordinary person > basically only searches for files inside the home directory (and if not, > they should go to Indexing Preferences to set additional directories for > tracker), and no-one uses slocate except for those who actually know it > beforehand, why include it by default and cause daily hard disk churn > for every Ubuntu user? Anyone who knows the slocate tool, and command > line in general, can apt-get install slocate at will. > > And the slowdown is not just "daily", ie. sometime at night, since > people don't generally have their computers on 24h/day. Basically it > happens every time the computer is started on a new day. cron.daily is > run, which includes running slocate on the whole hard disk even though > 99%+ of the users probably never utilize the database generated by it. > > So still, I argue that slocate should be _at least_ moved to > cron.weekly, with the additional steps I'd hope for too: > > 1. move to cron.monthly instead of cron.weekly
I'm a big slocate user on my systems, but personal feelings aside, I don't think continuing to run the service but providing totally stale data is worthwhile to anybody. I would suggest, if you want to leave the package installed but avoid updates, adding an /etc/default/slocate which disables the cron job entirely by default. It provides an easy bit to flip in a common location that would enable the normal update schedule to proceed when enabled. A simple enable/disable is potentially less confusing and obtrusive to the end user who doesn't want to muck around in cron or who is already familiar with the existing daily configuration. > 2. switch from slocate to mlocate > 3. remove mlocate/slocate dependency from Ubuntu default desktop > installation (leave it on server installations) > > -Timo > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
