* Sven Joachim [Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:47:29 +0200]:
> On 2008-09-29 08:20 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >> Package: debsums
> >> Version: 2.0.37
> >> Severity: important
> >> As subject says, it should be weekly at most.
> > Full ack. It takes several hours on my laptop… and my computer is very
> > slow when debsums still runs at 8 AM when I start my work.
> Maybe using ionice(1) as in the mlocate cron script could alleviate this.
I don't think it's comparable. mlocate's cron script boils down to a
bunch of stat calls plus the occasional readdir. This script on the
other hand wants to fully read all installed files in the system!
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Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
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if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.
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