On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 17:50:03 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
< plocate is a locate(1) based on posting lists, giving much faster searches on a much smaller index. It is a drop-in replacement for mlocate in nearly all aspects, and is fast on SSDs and non-SSDs alike. > Besides this it also handles sshfs mounts proper my 2 EURO cents > On Sat 09 Apr 2022 at 12:39:45 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > > > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. Looking > > > at the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go. I didn't > > > want this, and it's not apparent to me how to deal with it. > > > > > > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it? > > > > > You can uninstall the mlocate package. Or, you can edit > > /etc/cron.daily/mlocate and comment out the cron entry. That would > > leave the package installed, but you would need to keep the database > > updated manually. > > Or replace mlocate with plocate, which is reckoned to be better than > mlocate. >
