> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 10:03, Dan Jenkins wrote: > >> Since it is a scheduled task, why not just schedule it outside of >> presentation times? > > slocate on my laptop is particularly annoying, since it is not always on > running Linux, and almost always runs slocate shortly after startup > right at the time I don't want it to.
Has anybody with this problem tried modifying the cron/anacron script to invoke the database rebuild with a 'nice' value of say +19? I'm not sure if that would free up enough I/O or not... -Bill _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss