Rod Taylor wrote:
Doing the actual expunging during updatedb is better than as a separate
command for performance. As a periodic option (scrubbing content
generation or abuse sites in my case) combining with updatedb will
reduce the IO and CPU requirements. Updatedb already reads in the DB,
cycles through every entry, sorts it, and write it out.
Doing this in a separate command would kill 4 to 8 hours of otherwise
usable time. Doing it as a part of updatedb probably costs about 1 hour
of work (CPU time to apply filters only).
That's true. A separate tool might be useful anyway, but if you have
some spare cycles and could provide a patch to updatedb that implements
this it would be a great addition.
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