I not search things all the time, but when I do I use find-pipe-grep. Not because "locate" is an inferior solution, not at all, just a matter of habit.
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:09 PM Andrea Corbellini < corbellini.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:47 PM Julian Andres Klode < > julian.kl...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:19:48PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: >> > I use mlocate multiple times a day. >> > Find is way too slow and inconvenient for finding files in a big >> > set of filesystems, compared to properly configuring mlocate. >> >> Specifically, the filesystem must be huge or on a slow medium. It might >> make >> sense to move it out of standard and elsewhere, as I don't think it's >> necessarily needed everywhere, such as laptops. >> > > There's also the case of a blazing-fast medium, but high I/O load. > That's the case that I'm often facing when working on production servers. > Using find there is very frustrating. > > Consider my laptop, fairly standard, 512 GB NVME SSD, about 250G allocated, >> containing about 1435134 files. mlocate foo takes 1s, find / -mount >> -name '*foo*' takes about 7-9 secs, or 19 seconds with all mount points >> (but there is a davfs mount of an internet server, so things might be >> screwed up a bit). >> >> 19s to find something is perfectly workable, also you don't usually >> find from /, but you have an idea where things are, so it will be much >> faster. >> > > 19s for my standards are a lot, especially if I have to do multiple > searches. > There have been cases where I dumped the output of "find /" into a file > and resorted to search using grep. > > >> >> I think mlocate only really makes sense on data storage servers with >> huge disks, or on machines with HDDs. I therefore do not think the >> overhead of building the index is warranted for most users. It might >> make sense to keep mlocate in always-on tasks, like servers, but get >> rid of it from desktop scenarios. >> -- >> debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev >> ubuntu core developer i speak de, en >> >> -- >> ubuntu-devel mailing list >> ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >> > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- Marcos H. Alano Linux System Administrator marcoshal...@gmail.com
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