Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Apr 4 13:27:44 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:11 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> it's anacron not cron that does this, and in this case I'd actually just
> modify updatedb to do this not cron. But that's a matter of taste...
> 
> And there needs to be an upper limit on how long it waits for a quiet time
> otherwise a mildly loaded server would never run updatedb at all

Well, then there's makewhatis too...  I seriously think something like
this has wider application than just updatedb, which is why anacron
should be modified and not every single individual utility.

Dan




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