Basically a lot of text related programs are slower by orders of magnitude because Red Hat Linux default to UTF-8 processing for its work. And UTF compliant programs like grep spend a lot of time looking for multibyte characters(as in UTF) where mostly there arent any. I am guessing here, but maybe updatedb can run faster too. Havent tested it yet.
I checked further on this. I added LANG=en_US at the top of /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron and ran it. The loadavg hardly ever went above 1.4, and the system was very usable. However, without this line (the default), the loadavg went through the roof (4.9+) and the system was actually unusable.
- Sandip
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