On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:28 +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
entire files system (exageration, running several recursive finds), for what
I would still like to see a way to prioritise disc assess. So that I can say process "updatedb" and anything it calls, will get nothing but the leftover cycles. If it's alreay running, and something else comes up, like say, ls -lh, then ls -lh will immediately be given priority. You can nice -n 19 updatedb until the cows come home, it still kills your machine. I have disabled updatedb completely, and only run manually before I go to bed from time to time, because, with a 5400rpm hard disc, my notebook becomes useless while running. On my desktop, with a 7200rpm/16mb SATA disc, with SUSE 10.0, updatedb comes on when I switch it on. The box is useless until updatedb is done. Hans