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.
Bill