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slocate package

  1. Bug #13671
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 13671

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gpothier (gpothier) wrote :

Well I could have searched a bit myself: it seems I am using the CFQ scheduler:
$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop anticipatory deadline [cfq]

(I guess the brackets show the selected scheduler).

So it seems that ionice is not doing its job properly. Any idea about why? This is the command I used to launch updatedb:
$ sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c3 updatedb

My /etc/updatedb.conf specifies a niceness of 10.