Re: RT patch acceptance

[Hari N]

On 31 May 2005 13:14:45 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Are you sure it is not only disk IO? In theory updatedb shouldn't
> need much CPU, but it eats a lot of memory and causes stalls
> in the disk (or at least that was my interpration on the stalls I saw)
> If there is really a scheduling latency problem with updatedb
> then that definitely needs to be fixed in the stock kernel.
 
Yeah true...I have actually never observed updatedb taking much of my
CPU cycles. It just eats up a lot of memory. When the load average on
the system is high, sometimes updatedb even results in a system
freeze.

-- 
Hari
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