[linux-audio-user] Re: Newbie Linux user Struggling with MIDI

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:05 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > Sure about SuSE? One of the reasons I went away from SuSE
> > was locate and updatedb running while I wanted to work...
> 
> This was the reason why they removed it some time ago ;-) .
> 
> OTOH, they could have it installed but simply dropped the cron 
> job...

Sorry, wrong.  On a working system updatedb should not slow down other
processes.  If it does the scheduler is broken, or the cron job is
incorrectly running it at the default nice value.

What exactly is the problem with updatedb running wile you're trying
work?

Lee