On Wednesday 17 November 2010, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Thursday 18 Nov 2010 1:17:09 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Let's compare then. My system is 4 minutes to re-index everything from > > scratch. How long does your take and how big is your filesystem? > > time updatedb > real 1m35.163s > user 0m0.815s > sys 0m2.454s > > this was the first time i ran it after installation. i had uinstalled > slocate prior to this. > > PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp /root/.ccache /media/stuff/backup/gentoo32" > > the last folder is my 32bit chroot. > and i got arround 225 gb of data. i tried running a few qurries .. seems to > have indexed everything > > also after this i tried deleting /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db and then > running updatedb and it hardly took a second. > > time updatedb > > real 0m0.367s > user 0m0.193s > sys 0m0.167s > > weird indeed.
no, cache.
