Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> > Typical desktop users typically use their machines at 4am when these
> > cronjobs are running and notice a performance hit from these cronjobs?
> >  I really dont think many 'desktop users' see the nightly cronjobs.
> > Certaintly very very few corporate desktop users... and I would be
> > hard-pressed to call anyone sitting on their home computer at 4am a
> > casual or average user. Sounds like a nit-picky power user issue to
> > me.
> 
> Well, the issue isn't the CPU time updatedb and friends use, in general -
> it's the fact that it swaps out large portions of your working set.

the patch I posted here yesterday or so fixes that bit.

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