Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

John Ellson ellson at research.att.com
Sun Apr 3 17:33:18 UTC 2005


Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
Come on Jeff!   Typical Fedora *laptop* users get hit by these cron jobs 
at 9am in the morning when they
boot up and need to do work.    Its a real problem...




More information about the fedora-test-list mailing list