[Bug 332790] Re: updatedb.mlocate slows applications to unusable state, while running
Keith Hughitt
keith.hughitt at nasa.gov
Sat Jan 21 11:28:17 UTC 2012
Confirmed on 10.10 server. System runs on ext4 but there is also a multi-terabyte XFS storage partition which is likely the cause.
I have the updatedb in cron.daily, but no find cronjob.
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Title:
updatedb.mlocate slows applications to unusable state, while running
Status in “findutils” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “mlocate” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: mlocate
Every time updatedb.mlocate is running its scheduled task, it occupies hard disk and its bandwith
so user space aplications become slow and unresponsive.
Every time it runs i am mostly unable to do normal work on my machine an i need to wait
couple of minutes, doing nothing until that updatedb.mlocate thing is done.
I think that this is user-unfriendly behavior of updatedb.mlocate and I think that
it should run with some kind of lower priority to dissk, not disturbing user experience
and nor destroying Ubuntu usability for those few minutes.
I even switched time when that update runs , according to irc channel support,
and it still bugs me and destroy usability when i use computer at that time.
Current behavior: updatedb.mlocate occupies whole disk bandwith when it is run on scheduled time,
not allowing user space applications to run and turn system in unusable state during that run.
Crucial user-space actions are affected during its run.
Wated behavior: updatedb.mlocate should run at lower priority at disk usage to avoid
blocking Ubuntu computer for the time it runs.
I run Xubuntu Hardy amd64 8.04.2/LTS
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