Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

[Terje Kvernes]

Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> writes:

> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:00, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > first, slocate I/O shouldn't be able to bring your box to a crawl.
> > secondly, you're free to kill the processes while they're running.
>
> Unfortunately it does. I think that the 2.6 kernel will probably
> improve this, but currently updatedb effectively locks most disk i/o

  there is a difference, even under 2.4, between brining a box to a
  total crawl and to lock most disk I/O.  :-)

  that being said, 2.6.0 is nicer in this regard, which is one of the
  reasons I run 2.6. 

-- 
Terje

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