From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: locate and updatedb
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BCD05C.2040409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BC940F.6070109@zoho.com>
On 2/11/2016 9:00 AM, Byron Boulton wrote:
> Does anyone here have success using `updatedb` and `locate` in cygwin? I
> use `locate` heavily on my Linux machines, but everytime I've tried to
> run `updatedb` on cygwin I've given up and killed the process because it
> is taking too long. Is there something wrong with cygwin's
> implementation of `updatedb` making it not work at all or making it
> slower that on my Linux machines? Or are there others who have success
> using it on cygwin?
Processing every file on the drive will be slow just because it's
Windows. Initializing the database with updatedb will require a large
amount of time. There are processes such as AntiVirus intrusion
protection that might make it even slower.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-11 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-11 14:01 Byron Boulton
2016-02-11 18:17 ` cyg Simple [this message]
2016-02-11 18:34 ` Byron Boulton
2016-02-11 22:39 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-02-13 12:15 ` Linda Walsh
2016-02-16 22:55 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2016-02-17 13:43 ` Byron Boulton
2016-02-17 16:01 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2016-02-17 16:21 ` Byron Boulton
2016-02-17 16:49 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
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