From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266917AbUBFVwS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:52:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266485AbUBFVwQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:52:16 -0500 Received: from letku14.adsl.netsonic.fi ([194.29.195.14]:11674 "EHLO tupa.firmament.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265629AbUBFVvA (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:51:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:46:45 +0200 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Limit hash table size Message-ID: <20040206214645.GA20608@firmament.fi> References: <20040205155813.726041bd.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20040205190904.0cacd513.akpm@osdl.org> <20040206202006.GA19473@firmament.fi> <20040206122752.4dc9f434.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040206122752.4dc9f434.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Taneli_V=E4h=E4kangas?= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:27:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Taneli Vähäkangas wrote: > > > > OTOH, I'd very much > > appreciate if the system didn't act very sluggish during updatedb. > > It really helps if your filesystems were laid out by a 2.6 kernel. What > usually happens at present is that you install the distro using a 2.4 > kernel and then install 2.6. So all those files under /usr/bin and > /usr/include and everywhere else are laid down by the 2.4 kernel. Actually, I just moved my root and /usr partitions to another hard drive on Monday using tar on the same 2.6 system. Should that have helped? I didn't notice any improvement, but the new drive may be a little slower (its about the same age (6 years?) and capacity (4G), but from a laptop). Maybe I should move also /home over and see if it improves? It is 4 and a half years old, and probably made with 2.2 kernel. That will require a little more effort, since I don't have a replacement HD. Taneli