On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 04:42 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:05:37PM -0400, Richard Hally wrote: > > are you saying that Fedora is unsuitable for ordinary desktops and (by > > extension laptops) unless they have scsi? > > I think some people would prefer to say that "PC's are unsuitable for use > without real disks" 8) > > In this case the fact that it is I/O not CPU means the requirements to quieten > such an app are really not handled by nice(2) also note that the cfq io scheduler makes updatedb and friends a lot more bareable. CFQ is default in our kernel, but not in kernel.org kernels, so if the "2.6 is bad with updatedb" notion is based on kernel.org kernels then I strongly suggest switching those to CFQ. Also note that both upstream and our kernels are currently missing the "fix" for updatedb eating your VM that was present in earlier fedora kernels: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/linux-2.6.5-inode-clip.patch
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