Thanks for your bugreport. This is somewhat sup suprising, this problem should be fixed in jaunty. It checks for ionice and if that is availalbe does use it. What does: "sudo sh -x /etc/cron.daily/mlocate" print for you?
Upon further inspection it seem like the problem is the "find" script in /etc/cron.daily that does not use ionice ** Changed in: mlocate (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: mlocate (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Foundations Team (ubuntu-foundations) => Michael Vogt (mvo) -- updatedb.mlocate slows applications to unusable state, while running https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs