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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:00, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> Steven Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>   first, slocate I/O shouldn't be able to bring your box to a crawl.
>   secondly, you're free to kill the processes while they're running.

Unfortunately it does. I think that the 2.6 kernel will probably improve 
this, but currently updatedb effectively locks most disk i/o

Paul

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