7 Jun
2002
7 Jun
'02
05:55
Philipp Thomas
Nope ;-) He was right. The reason was too many people complaining of the performance hit the machine takes when updatedb runs. Most of those complaining probably never knew what 'locate' does, let alone that something like that exists.
Isn't that why cron.daily normally runs in the (very) early hours of the morning when, hopefully, there will not be much user activity? Or is the problem mainly with people who only power on the computer when they want to use it, so that the system has to "catch up" with its housekeeping when the system is booted?