Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate

Lee Revell
2006-03-05T21:43:08Z

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:36 +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm fed up with those finds running whenever I power on. Has anyone
> written an equivalent of the Microsoft indexing service to update
> locate's database?
>
> I know about Beagle and friends but I'd be interested in whatever I'm
> missing that specifically solves the above problem - I'm sure it's
> been done :-)

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?

Lee