Updatedb does not finish

[Arun Biyani]

This morning there were no "find" jobs running. It appears that adding 
/proc to prunepaths
did work.

/usr/bin/updatedb --localpaths="/  /c" --prunepaths="/a    /proc"

Arun

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Arun Biyani on 7/10/2006 5:23 PM:
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>> I have been running "updatedb" via a cron job for almost 6 months now.
>> It is started
>> at 11PM & is usually done in an hour. Recently, I have been noticing
>> that there is a
>> "find" job still running when I get in, in the morning.
>>     
>
> This looks like this thread may be relevant:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00331.html
>
> Can you try setting PRUNEPATHS=/proc in your environment, and see if that
> helps cut down the time updatedb takes by cutting down what it traverses?
>
> - --
> Life is short - so eat dessert first!
>
> Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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