FS#15613 - [mlocate] use ionice if present in /etc/cron.daily/updatedb

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bjoern Hiller (Zaphod) - Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 07:15 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 01 August 2009, 09:46 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To James Rayner (iphitus)
Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

My computer is not running 24/7 and so every morning updatedb has to run and reindex the filesystem. As this causes quite high IO other processes (which are more important to me) start up very slow. Therefore I suggest to add ionice to the cronjob to reduce the IO load due to updatedb. A small patch is attached.
   updatedb.cron.daily.patch (0.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 01 August 2009, 09:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  cron job in backup array for mlocate-0.22-2

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