Consider replacing the locate/updatedb part of findutils with the mlocate package from Red Hat, Inc.
Quote from the mlocate project home page: > mlocate is a new locate implementation. The ‘m’ stands for “merging”: > updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file > system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches > as much. > > The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate. > It also attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not > conflict with slocate compatibility. > The link to that home page is: http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ I installed this package in my BLFS system with no errors, and it works fine. After the first time updatedb is run, it really is much faster than the original. Dave Or maybe it could just be made available in BLFS?
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