31 Jul
2005
31 Jul
'05
8:29 p.m.
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