From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:55:46 +0200 From: Rene Herman MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200707102015.44004.kernel@kolivas.org> <9a8748490707231608h453eefffx68b9c391897aba70@mail.gmail.com> <46A57068.3070701@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707232153j3670ef31kae3907dff1a24cb7@mail.gmail.com> <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Ingo Molnar , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/25/2007 06:06 AM, Nick Piggin wrote: > Ray Lee wrote: >> Anyway, my point is that I worry that tuning for an unusual and >> infrequent workload (which updatedb certainly is), is the wrong way to >> go. > > Well it runs every day or so for every desktop Linux user, and it has > similarities with other workloads. It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone complain about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the first place. If anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply disable updatedb, the problem will for a large part be solved. This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few similar loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media player indexing a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard of problems _other_ than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy. Rene. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org