[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: locate on sv.gnu.org?

[Sylvain Beucler]

(CC'ing sv-hack-pub)

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:16:37AM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Sylvain, 
> 
> It seems the locate database on sv.gnu.org hasn't been updated since
> mid-December ... intentional?  I found it very useful.
> 
> savannah:~$ locate /Gui/Reference
> locate: warning: database `/var/cache/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old
> savannah:~$ v /var/cache/locate/locatedb
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 8044801 Dec 13 08:58 /var/cache/locate/locatedb

I disabled it 2006-12-13 (says ChangeLog), though I didn't mention
why.

As far as I remember the updatedb process was quite ressource
consuming (especially when you're working on SV meanwhile), as it
parses all the CVS/Arch repositories and its numerous files.

What are you using it for?

-- 
Sylvain