Looking for a good portable linux system
Benjamin Scott
bscott at ntisys.com
Tue Dec 21 20:17:01 EST 2004
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, at 10:57am, invalid at pizzashack.org wrote:
> Personally, I think running slocate via cron is a waste of time on a
> personal machine. ... To be honest though, I never use locate, so for me
> it's pretty much pointless to have the cron job.
Heh. I use it all the time. "I know I downloaded/saved a copy of a file
that had info on/does that...".
> If you have other cron jobs that are like slocate, that you need to run, a
> dual proc system may be of only limited help. If your cron jobs are I/O
> intensive, and your application is I/O intensive, then your disks may be
> your bottleneck.
Plus Linux's I/O scheduling has historically been rather poor, meaning
that even if you had just one I/O heavy task and several I/O light tasks,
they would all bog. Supposedly this is better in 2.6, but I haven't had a
chance to look at that yet.
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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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