Package: findutils Version: 4.2.22-1 My /etc/updatedb.conf contains (among other things):
LOCALUSER="root" export LOCALUSER NICE=19 export NICE and when updatedb is run by cron from /etc/cron.daily/find, it runs at the expected nice priority of 19. However, when updatedb runs 'find', find's nice level is 0, not 19. Running /etc/cron.daily/find manually as root produces the same result. The output from running it manually and then checking the status with 'ps -eo "%p %P %n %a"' was: 28410 4824 0 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/find 28412 28410 19 /bin/sh /usr/bin/updatedb 28420 28412 19 /bin/sh /usr/bin/updatedb 28422 28412 19 /usr/bin/sort -z -f 28423 28412 19 /usr/lib/locate/frcode -0 28426 28420 0 /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstyp I'm running Debian testing i386, with kernel 2.6.8, with libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22. This bug really makes my system slow down until find finishes - it would be really useful to have it fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]