From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 In-Reply-To: <46A6DFFD.9030202@gmail.com> Message-ID: 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> <46A6DFFD.9030202@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rene Herman Cc: Nick Piggin , Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Ingo Molnar , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/25/2007 07:12 AM, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >> > 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. >> >> but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and >> waiting for find to complete on a regular basis. > > Yes, but what's locate's usage scenario? I've never, ever wanted to use it. > When do you know the name of something but not where it's located, other than > situations which "which" wouldn't cover and after just having > installed/unpacked something meaning locate doesn't know about it yet either? which only finds executables that are in the path. I commonly use locate to find config files (or sample config files) for packages that were installed at some point in the past with fairly default configs and now I want to go and tweak them. so I start reading documentation and then need to find out where $disto moved the files to this release (I commonly am working on machines with over a half dozen different distro releases, and none of them RedHat) David Lang -- 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