> 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.
As soon as it started, the machine simply turned unusable. THe
problem IMHO was disc IO which doesn't get influenced by
nice.
I heard rumors there *will* be a possibility to influence disc
IO priviledges, but as I used SuSE there was no possibility
to do so.
Best regards
ce
