Looking for a good portable linux system
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Thu Dec 23 05:20:02 EST 2004
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 10:03, Dan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> Since it is a scheduled task, why not just schedule it outside of
>> presentation times?
>
> slocate on my laptop is particularly annoying, since it is not always on
> running Linux, and almost always runs slocate shortly after startup
> right at the time I don't want it to.
Has anybody with this problem tried modifying the cron/anacron script to
invoke the database rebuild with a 'nice' value of say +19?
I'm not sure if that would free up enough I/O or not...
-Bill
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