On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:19, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Hi, > > updatedb is set to run about an hour after I boot up in the morning. > Once it is started, my machine is almost unusable for 10 minutes.
Couple of ideas. Change the nice of the updatedb process. Change the time update is to run to be after you have left work. Schedule shutdown to be after the updatedb run. shutdown -h 19:00 would do that nicely. The boss can afford a couple of hours extra juice without even noticing. Upgrading to a 2.6 kernel would probably help considerably. [ description of computer provided by penny-pinching boss elided ] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
