Re: updatedb affecting performance

[Michael JasonSmith]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:02, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> > Does your machine feel sluggish if you run something like 'dd
> > if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/somewhere/on/hdc/testfile bs=32k count=10k'[0]?
> > How about when running 'find / > /dev/null'?
> 
> Bingo. It feels like video conferencing on dial-up. Same as updatedb.
I've been pondering this some more…
      * Does updatedb slow down your machine *only* when it runs across
        hdc, not hda, hdb, or hdd?
      * Is updatedb working across multiple disks at the same time?
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