slocate suggestion, using ionice to change priority

Andy Alkaline · 07-11-2009, 06:55 PM

I've modified my cron slocate (updatedb) script

ionice -c3 nice -n 19 /usr/bin/updatedb -c /etc/updatedb.conf

Because of the heavy drive activity, ionice works much better than nice in this situation.

Using 'nice' here doesn't do nearly as much for me as 'ionice' when using updatedb.

syg00 · 07-11-2009, 07:17 PM

I'm not a Slackuser, but I'm surprised Pat hasn't included mlocate - much kinder on the entire filesystem.

Bruce Hill · 07-18-2009, 04:33 AM

Seems that Pat agreed with you:

Code:

Fri Jul 17 21:05:16 CDT 2009
<snip>
a/slocate-3.1-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.  Changed the daily updatedb cron job
  to use "ionice -c3 nice -n 19".  Thanks to Andy Alt.

Thanks, Andy ... good suggestion.