On 26/07/07, Andika Triwidada [off-list ref] wrote:

On 7/26/07, Rene Herman [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 07/25/2007 07:15 PM, Robert Deaton wrote:

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On 7/25/07, Rene Herman [off-list ref] wrote:

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And there we go again -- off into blabber-land. Why does swap-prefetch
help updatedb? Or doesn't it? And if it doesn't, why should anyone
trust anything else someone who said it does says?

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I don't think anyone has ever argued that swap-prefetch directly helps
the performance of updatedb in any way

People have argued (claimed, rather) that swap-prefetch helps their system
after updatedb has run -- you are doing so now.

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however, I do recall people mentioning that updatedb, being a ram
intensive task, will often cause things to be swapped out while it runs
on say a nightly cronjob.

Problem spot no. 1.

RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M. Yes,
two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems are possibly not
the reference but assuming I'm _very_ special hasn't done much for me either
in the past.

Might be insignificant, but updatedb calls find (~2M) and sort (~26M).
Definitely not RAM intensive though (RAM is 1GB).

That doesn't match my box at all :

root@dragon:/home/juhl# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2070856    1611548     459308          0      59312     740760
-/+ buffers/cache:     811476    1259380
Swap:       987988          0     987988

root@dragon:/home/juhl# updatedb

root@dragon:/home/juhl# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2070856    1724204     346652          0     144708     745328
-/+ buffers/cache:     834168    1236688
Swap:       987988          0     987988


This is a Slackware Linux 12.0 system.


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