--On Friday, August 27, 2004 02:38:05 +1000 Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:Actually, with the current scheduler, updatedb really sucks. It's supposed to be a background task, but it hogs IO resources and memory like crazy (disclaimer: it's my personal subjective observation).
The cpu scheduler plays almost no part in this. It's the I/O scheduler and the vm. IOnice will help the former _when it comes out_. Dropping the swappiness kind of helps the latter; although there are numerous alternative tweaks appearing for that too.
Yup. I can open a large 8Mpixel camera image in "display" and hang the whole
system for about 30s too ;-(
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