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

[Christoph Eckert]

> 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?

Some time passed since I used SuSE. I used it on a 200MHz 
machine.

THe updatedb was invoked at 12PM, a time I usually still sit 
in front of the computer.

As soon as it started, the machine simply turned unusable. THe 
problem IMHO was disc IO which doesn't get influenced by 
nice.

I heard rumors there *will* be a possibility to influence disc 
IO priviledges, but as I used SuSE there was no possibility 
to do so.


Best regards


    ce