On Apr 3, 2005 12:59 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Furthermore, killing dumb cron jobs that run every day like 'updatedb' and 'makewhatis' > would help make the desktop experience a hell of a lot better (geez, run them every 3 days > and only when the machine has been idle for 5 minutes or something, and re-nice them > really really really low so they don't screw over the user). Typical desktop users typically use their machines at 4am when these cronjobs are running and notice a performance hit from these cronjobs? I really dont think many 'desktop users' see the nightly cronjobs. Certaintly very very few corporate desktop users... and I would be hard-pressed to call anyone sitting on their home computer at 4am a casual or average user. Sounds like a nit-picky power user issue to me. -jef"of course if you want to complain about anacron behavior.. be my guest"spaleta