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.
It's already niced to the max.
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.
Possible, but I'd rather fix it than work-around it. I'd also get a surprise if I stayed at work late one evening and it suddenly shut down on me.
Upgrading to a 2.6 kernel would probably help considerably.
[ description of computer provided by penny-pinching boss elided ]
He's not penny pinching. I asked for a 21inch CRT to go next to my 17 inch, and got it. As long as there is a sensible-sounding reason!
Cheers, Carl.
