laptops and cron maintenance

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

seth vidal wrote:

>>I know I use locate several times a week to find things, both system
>>files and things lost in the rats nest I call a home directory.  Yes the
>>rebuild of the database is annoying on either a laptop OR on a large
>>server, but that just means a way needs to be found to maintain the
>>database in a way that is less stressful to the system.
>>
>and while you go work out the way to maintain the database, I will
>gladly take a disabled updatedb, though to be sure I run: rpm -e slocate
>  
>

and prelink ?

# du / -sh
215G    /


# time /etc/cron.daily/prelink
real    6m20.185s
user    4m17.957s
sys     0m21.508s



# time updatedb
real    3m49.620s
user    0m5.225s
sys     0m17.392s


locate vs find (vs whereis vs which)

# time locate sethvidal
/data2/doku/fedora/sethvidal
real    0m0.551s
user    0m0.386s
sys     0m0.073s


# time find / -name sethvidal
/data2/doku/fedora/sethvidal
real    0m25.137s
user    0m2.336s
sys     0m4.181s

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shrek-m