Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 17:22:46 UTC 2005


On Apr 3, 2005 12:59 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> Furthermore, killing dumb cron jobs that run every day like 'updatedb' and 'makewhatis' 
> would help make the desktop experience a hell of a lot better (geez, run them every 3 days 
> and only when the machine has been idle for 5 minutes or something, and re-nice them
> really really really low so they don't screw over the user).

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.

-jef"of course if you want to complain about anacron behavior.. be my
guest"spaleta




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