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Re:Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid by jimboyoungblood on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @01:52AM (#616347)
Since you know its useless, why not just turn off the updatedb cron job?
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Re:Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid by sokoloff on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @09:19AM (#616707)
Because updatedb isn't inherently useless, but rather that file system caching (especially for pages read once) shouldn't eject application pages from RAM to disk.

Being able to run locate and have it quickly return an accurate result is useful at times. I just don't want it paging my entire session out to disk every night in order to do that.

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Re:Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid by ars on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @11:59AM (#617007)
"I just don't want it paging my entire session out to disk every night in order to do that."

It doesn't.

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