Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
