From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 18:08:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060305230821.GA20768@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141594983.14714.121.camel@mindpipe>
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:43:03PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> updatedb runs at nice 20 on most distros, and with the CFQ scheduler the
> IO priority follows the nice value, so why does it still kill the
> machine?
Running updatedb on a laptop when you're sitting in an airplane running
off of batteries is Not Nice to the user. I know, I've had it happen far
too many times.
-ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-05 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 21:36 [OT] inotify hack for locate Jon Masters
2006-03-05 21:42 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-05 21:50 ` Jon Masters
2006-03-06 9:23 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-06 21:59 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-05 21:53 ` Robin Holt
2006-03-05 22:02 ` Jon Masters
2006-03-05 21:43 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-05 23:08 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-03-05 23:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-06 21:53 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-06 22:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-06 22:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-08 13:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-05 23:41 ` Chris Ball
2006-03-06 1:04 ` Jon Masters
2006-03-06 9:31 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-06 13:10 ` Jon Masters
2006-03-07 0:11 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-07 0:33 ` Jon Masters
2006-03-07 10:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-03-09 2:44 ` Jon Masters
2006-03-06 7:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 13:12 ` Jon Masters
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