Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx) said: > 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. Well, the issue isn't the CPU time updatedb and friends use, in general - it's the fact that it swaps out large portions of your working set. Bill