Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> Typical desktop users typically use their machines at 4am when these
> cronjobs are running and notice a performance hit from these cronjobs?
>  I really dont think many 'desktop users' see the nightly cronjobs.
> Certaintly very very few corporate desktop users... and I would be
> hard-pressed to call anyone sitting on their home computer at 4am a
> casual or average user. Sounds like a nit-picky power user issue to
> me.

Well, the issue isn't the CPU time updatedb and friends use, in general -
it's the fact that it swaps out large portions of your working set.

Bill