On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Phill Coxon wrote:

2) What solutions are available for reducing desktop sluggishness
because some database or other is reindexing?  Would moving key data
directories (/home) to a separate drive away from application binaries
help?

In order of easiest to hardest...

crontab it to happen in the middle of the night.

Use nice -19

Use Reiser4fs.

Use the latest kernel.

Refactor app to use mmap instead of seek/read's.


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