On 8/18/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >
> > There are two more files found in the subset database than in the
> > whole system database. By some strange coincidence, both of these
> > files are >2GB in size. But I don't know why they get excluded.
> > Certainly not from any exclusion rule in /etc/updatedb.conf.
> >
>
> I have no knowledge here, just a thought, perhaps crazy, but here goes.
> Could it be some kind of timeout problem? When the CPU is bogged down
> with a large set of files to be filed into the db, could it be that the
> large files are just taking too long to respond, and thereby end up
> getting skipped?
The data-base builder never looks at the content of the files, just
their names. And apparently their sizes, although I haven't been able
to find in the source code where this happens. When I say "size" I
mean the size as would be indicated by "ls -l", not reading through
the file to count the bytes.
Also this happens too magically at the file size of exactly 2 Gigabytes.
carl
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