[ltp] Problem with updatedb

[Ronald W. Heiby]

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Thursday, August 21, 2003, 9:21:31 AM, James wrote:
> This line that "renices" all processes might be what you want to modify,
> rather than removing or halting the updatedb process.

Looking at RH 8.0, the line before the updatedb invocation does not
renice "all processes". It renices the current shell process (running
the script). The effect is to REDUCE the priority given to that shell
process AND ALL OF ITS CHILDREN so that the amount that they interfere
with anything else going on in the system is minimized.

Anyone who doesn't like the performance hit of running this script
will NOT want to change it to run at a higher priority than it already
is set to run.

Ron.

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