Le mar 09/07/2002 � 04:39, Geoffrey Lee a �crit :

> actually rpm check isn't so bad only my system (~ 10 sec), compared to the
> time slocate + msec_find took to run at 4 am (~ 6 min)

oups I did it again !
I've forgot this one
sad, but on my desktop I disable all msec/rpm/locate and whatever you
want that increase my disk activity

> > when i had ide bus reset on hda ( my main hd where the sys where
> > installed ). no more disk access, see proc I/O growing in gkrellm and
> > then total freeze.

and more I have the tips to sometimes make it work : knock the HD.
sometimes I can hear when it decide to run again. it's not fuunny as
this pb occur only one time obn win2k and several times on linux.

> you mean the slocate database?

yes
 
> personally I think it's a pity that no one ever uses it. I don't know if there
> are any slocate gui, maybe someone should write one <shrug>.

sure slocate is good i'm agree with as I used to use it. but we are
talking in a desktop config. not for expert users ( they know how to
activate/install slocate ), we are talking about normal users that avoid
to use CLI and will use KDE find tool and so on ... so when will they
use slocate ?
maybe when they will ask to find a file on CLI ( seldom ), some will
talk about find, and someone else about slocate. 
- slocate ? I don't have it ! 
- ok just install the rpm 
- how can I install slocate ? where is it ?
- http://www.geekreview.org/slocate/
- apt-get locate :p
- no he's a mandrake user and so : urpmi slocate. but take care you need
the rebuild the db often because ... bla bla bla bla 
- ah ok thx 

question : does this man is going to use slocate again and take care
about rebuilding the db ? i don't think. it will use slocate one time
per month



The GUI for slocate : http://alxobr.free.fr/xlocate/xlocate.html


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