Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate

Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-05T23:13:34Z

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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