From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16286 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Nov 2003 11:46:37 -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 31755 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 11:46:36 -0000 To: Paul de Vrieze Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> <200311051024.38537.pauldv@gentoo.org> From: Terje Kvernes Organization: do you Gentoo? X-URL: http://terje.kvernes.no/ Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:46:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200311051024.38537.pauldv@gentoo.org> (Paul de Vrieze's message of "Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:24:37 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Terje Kvernes X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 16e6f25c-11e3-4fb5-943e-6adb3f278399 X-Archives-Hash: cb95eae8c7a1a749fd43f786d7792b17 Paul de Vrieze writes: > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:00, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > 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 this, but currently updatedb effectively locks most disk i/o there is a difference, even under 2.4, between brining a box to a total crawl and to lock most disk I/O. :-) that being said, 2.6.0 is nicer in this regard, which is one of the reasons I run 2.6. -- Terje -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list