2005/8/1, Christoph Eckert <ce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Sorry, wrong. On a working system updatedb should not slow > > down other processes. If it does the scheduler is broken, > > or the cron job is incorrectly running it at the default > > nice value. > > What exactly is the problem with updatedb running wile > > you're trying work? > Some time passed since I used SuSE. I used it on a 200MHz > machine. > THe updatedb was invoked at 12PM, a time I usually still sit > in front of the computer. My SuSE was on a P133 and a P3 1133Hz. And SuSE had this "great" feature to run daily-cron ten minutes after booting or ten past four in the morning. Most times it hit me ten minutes after booting while I wanted to check mails and do some serious work. But I realised I just had to disable this one line in the cron-daily-scripts... > As soon as it started, the machine simply turned unusable. THe > problem IMHO was disc IO which doesn't get influenced by > nice. Yep. Arnold -- Wenn man mit Raubkopien Bands wie Brosis oder Britney Spears wirklich verhindern k?nnte, w?rde ich mir noch heute einen Stapel Brenner und einen Sack Rohlinge kaufen.
