updatedb cron job should make use of ionice
Bug #134692 reported by
Timmie
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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findutils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Kees Cook | ||
slocate (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Kees Cook |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cron
Updatedb is invocted every day by cron.
When it is started it is not possible to work on other things like use Firefox with many tabs or write a letter in Openoffice since updatedb runs on a very high priority!
Please change the default cron script that it goes more like this:
ionice -c 2 -n 7 nice -n 19 updatedb
Thant would make the computer still usable while the service runs!!!
Changed in slocate: | |
assignee: | blueyed → nobody |
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Yes, I think it's a good idea to use "ionice", if it's present.
Apart from that, wouldn't "ionice -c 3" make more sense (3 being "idle" class)?