Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Raphael Geissert
Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Raphael Geissert , 2009-09-08, 13:28: >>> Since CFQ is the default IO scheduler, this kind of tasks should be >>> launched with "ionice -c3", no ? >> >>But that would introduce a dependency on ionice. An option would be to use >>start-stop-daemon's IO nice capabilities. > >

Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Raphael Geissert , 2009-09-08, 13:28: Since CFQ is the default IO scheduler, this kind of tasks should be launched with "ionice -c3", no ? But that would introduce a dependency on ionice. An option would be to use start-stop-daemon's IO nice capabilities. $ dlocate -S /bin/ionice util-linux

Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Raphael Geissert
[Dropping the -amd64 ML as it seems irrelevant] Olivier Bonvalet wrote: > Since CFQ is the default IO scheduler, this kind of tasks should be > launched with "ionice -c3", no ? > But that would introduce a dependency on ionice. An option would be to use start-stop-daemon's IO nice capabilities.

Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Since CFQ is the default IO scheduler, this kind of tasks should be launched with "ionice -c3", no ? Olivier Lennart Sorensen a écrit : On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I would like to discuss and suggest the following thing: On my 64-bit notebook I am usin

Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I would like to discuss and suggest the following thing: > > On my 64-bit notebook I am using anacron and (of course) apt. In the apt > package included is the file /etc/cron.daily/apt, which contents some lines, > which are star

Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 13:42:28 08.09.2009 UTC+02 when hans.ullr...@loop.de did gyre and gimble: HU> What do you think? Is there a way and a chance, to improve things? Any HU> feedback will be very welcome. Excerpt from the file itself: # check if the user really wants to do something AutoAptEnabl

apt: cron.daily necessary?

2009-09-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I would like to discuss and suggest the following thing: On my 64-bit notebook I am using anacron and (of course) apt. In the apt package included is the file /etc/cron.daily/apt, which contents some lines, which are starting a find process. This find process initiated by apt (and I h