Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: locate on sv.gnu.org?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 04:47:36PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     What are you using it for?
> 
> I used it on occasion, when people wondered if and when a file had been
> updated, or trying to track down where or whether some file existed, or
> trying to find different versions of some files in multiple
> repositories, or whatever.  There is no other easy way of knowing what
> is on the system ...
> 
>     I remember the updatedb process was quite ressource consuming
> 
> Indeed.  Maybe nice -n 19 would help?

I don't think so, I believe 'nice' helps with the CPU load but not
with disk I/O :/

Suggestions?

Do you remember of concrete examples of files you were looking for?
It'd help determining what data needs to be indexed and what might be
ignored.

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Sylvain