From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9265 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Nov 2003 09:24:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8766 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 09:24:45 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:24:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311051024.38537.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: eb20811f-a0f4-4fe9-9411-6d899b8c2d80 X-Archives-Hash: f8b1cefd9b4d67f9b7996eb4ea043ae5 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:00, Terje Kvernes wrote: > Steven Elling writes: > > > first, slocate I/O shouldn't be able to bring your box to a crawl. > secondly, you're free to kill the processes while they're running. Unfortunately it does. I think that the 2.6 kernel will probably improve=20 this, but currently updatedb effectively locks most disk i/o Paul =2D --=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qMHWbKx5DBjWFdsRArAzAKCTVyQqLp+JTqV1m1q+h/9JUXC1XwCeJ0Mq 0JXW5f3QBC57CkJyf195Rfg=3D =3DGwrT =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list