On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 04:25:10PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > mlocate and locate(findutils) now work together via > alternatives. Could you make dlocate use the one installed instead > of relying on locate being installed. mlocate is much faster with > indexing and does not trash my fs cache, a point which is not to be > underestimated on a small laptop
i saw that the other day and wondered if dlocate might benefit from it. i've just installed mlocate on my system and found that it doesn't provide frcode (which dlocate requires to build it's own locatedb from the files lists of installed packages) or any alternative tool that does the same job. at this point in time, i can't see any way that dlocate could be made to use mlocate or mlocate's updatedb program (which seems to have no way of feeding in your own files list...and which probably insists on stat-ing each file to find out the ownership & permission details). i'll investigate further, but don't expect any success. > where when you boot the next several minutes everything is horrible > slow due to locate updatedb. i'll modify /etc/cron.daily/dlocate so that it uses ionice, like mlocate and findutils. that should help. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
