mlocate.updatedb does not call ionice

[gpk]

Binary package hint: mlocate

updatedb.mlocate can cause a lot of disk activity, and it is not a time-critical process. Therefore, it should call nice and ionice so that it does not steal cycles or disk activity from foreground processes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: mlocate 0.22.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 13 09:31:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mlocate

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David Fraser (davidf)]

My mlocate script installed with the latest version in 14.04 in /etc/cron.daily calls ionice, so this can be marked done

# See ionice(1)
if [ -x /usr/bin/ionice ] &&
    /usr/bin/ionice -c3 true 2>/dev/null; then
    IONICE="/usr/bin/ionice -c3"
fi

flock --nonblock /run/mlocate.daily.lock $IONICE /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate