On 2007-12-08 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Might I suggest you also add a comment like this into locate-cron.daily?
> Using IONICE_CLASS is a trade-off between locate database > consistency and friendliness to other processes. The nicer we are, > the less impact we have on system performance when updating the > database, because we generally spread our usage out more. Spreading > the usage out a bit more means that updating the database takes > longer and the result is a slightly less consistent view of the > filesystem. Since it is not possible to get a perfectly consistent > view anyway, using IONICE_CLASS=3 is normally reasonable. Thanks. I have added this to the README.Debian and have added a pointer to the cronjob. cu andreas PS: Kees, it is in SVN. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-findutils/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0 -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
