From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46A6D8DF.8060205@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:00:15 +1000 From: Nick Piggin 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> <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rene Herman Cc: Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Ingo Molnar , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Rene Herman wrote: > 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. OK fair point, but the counter point that there are real patterns that just use-once a lot of metadata (ls, for example. grep even.) -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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