On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta(a)gmail.com) said:
> Typical desktop users typically use their machines at 4am when these
> cronjobs are running and notice a performance hit from these cronjobs?
> I really dont think many 'desktop users' see the nightly cronjobs.
> Certaintly very very few corporate desktop users... and I would be
> hard-pressed to call anyone sitting on their home computer at 4am a
> casual or average user. Sounds like a nit-picky power user issue to
> me.
Well, the issue isn't the CPU time updatedb and friends use, in general -
it's the fact that it swaps out large portions of your working set.
the patch I posted here yesterday or so fixes that bit.