From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id r23so100203elf for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:33:41 +1000 From: "Matthew Hawkins" Subject: Re: [ck] Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23] In-Reply-To: <20070726102406.GA30165@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2c0942db0707232153j3670ef31kae3907dff1a24cb7@mail.gmail.com> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A85D95.509@kingswood-consulting.co.uk> <20070726092025.GA9157@elte.hu> <20070726023401.f6a2fbdf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070726094024.GA15583@elte.hu> <20070726030902.02f5eab0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070726102406.GA30165@elte.hu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck list , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson , Andi Kleen , Frank Kingswood List-ID: On 7/26/07, Ingo Molnar wrote: > wrong, it's active on three of my boxes already :) But then again, i > never had these hangover problems. (not really expected with gigs of RAM > anyway) [...] > --- /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron.orig [...] mlocate by design doesn't thrash the cache as much. People using slocate (distros other than Redhat ;) are going to be hit worse. See http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ updatedb by itself doesn't really bug me, its just that on occasion its still running at 7am which then doesn't assist my single spindle come swapin of the other apps! I'm considering getting one of the old ide drives out in the garage and shifting swap onto it. The swap prefetch patch has mainly assisted me in the "state A -> B -> A" scenario. A lot. -- Matt -- 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