Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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
Come on Jeff! Typical Fedora *laptop* users get hit by these cron jobs
at 9am in the morning when they
boot up and need to do work. Its a real problem...