updatedb.mlocate slows applications to unusable state, while running
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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findutils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt | ||
mlocate (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mlocate
Every time updatedb.mlocate is running its scheduled task, it occupies hard disk and its bandwith
so user space aplications become slow and unresponsive.
Every time it runs i am mostly unable to do normal work on my machine an i need to wait
couple of minutes, doing nothing until that updatedb.mlocate thing is done.
I think that this is user-unfriendly behavior of updatedb.mlocate and I think that
it should run with some kind of lower priority to dissk, not disturbing user experience
and nor destroying Ubuntu usability for those few minutes.
I even switched time when that update runs , according to irc channel support,
and it still bugs me and destroy usability when i use computer at that time.
Current behavior: updatedb.mlocate occupies whole disk bandwith when it is run on scheduled time,
not allowing user space applications to run and turn system in unusable state during that run.
Crucial user-space actions are affected during its run.
Wated behavior: updatedb.mlocate should run at lower priority at disk usage to avoid
blocking Ubuntu computer for the time it runs.
I run Xubuntu Hardy amd64 8.04.2/LTS
Related branches
Changed in mlocate (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-foundations |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
This is still a problem on jaunty; it'd be lovely if we could 'ionice -c 3' the updatedb process.