OS wrote: > > Although many people would say that it is important to know where everything > is, as accurately as possible, it don't 'alf cripple the system having > slocate kick in everytime the PC is booted (yep, typically once a day) ! > > In itself slocate in not particularly resource hungry. But having something > going hammer and tongs at the hard disk effectively brings the system to a > halt !! And I'm not exaggerating ! I think OS probably means updatedb, not slocate. You can reduce the time it takes by not leaving things mounted. You can select the time of day to run it in cron or anacron, conventionally 4:02 am if the PC is powered up, otherwise when it is switched on next after 4:02 am. I have not noticed any significant slowdown, even on this 300MHz Pentium, working while updatedb is running. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
