From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 88982 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2016 18:17:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 88972 invoked by uid 89); 11 Feb 2016 18:17:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=intrusion, Boulton, boulton, H*i:sk:56BC940 X-HELO: mail-io0-f169.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f169.google.com) (209.85.223.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:17:41 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f169.google.com with SMTP id g203so37851285iof.2 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:17:40 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/kxkMGFVq47bB16+WBZiqVcl9ALCgwHNF2uZ1zUzblI=; b=lxXpZCQP2YcpXp32pJh5ClhURd8Tkvhme+hdplzXKeLVkqGx2uBS9prMVK5LRAt51Z SCBwRani7/dYpleQVKdUMzs+HCGDUPyX5jXws3j1/d6uGHocvh6ciK2h8WGlpK7s6R9X yX1LB0yG54O/IEKe3w4x6RU3BDqkfjFwdxgVrgXflPMNwZ4xck0z9DHLLOrYu0gMxtOh +Dg9n/K7PmHVwJQrWJwGxFfvcr1DUpkWO3OO1+FehdAeOiEZjo0/ugkuDzgBtSJ6md7n tjjIi/LBD8IzNywS0ja2cJXsMsdiJ4ZQkUP2J5zSqPF4V1sSbspZvmuKJ8mgTpp0Kvvv 4a7A== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOSGiPO4norsVTfMaRlwO3xN13xVFZdw5mM9v6NPNHy9LNoPhWKSMTnMg+xfZkIhsg== X-Received: by 10.107.1.196 with SMTP id 187mr51307022iob.184.1455214659148; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:17:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.9] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t16sm4618354ioe.36.2016.02.11.10.17.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:17:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: locate and updatedb To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56BC940F.6070109@zoho.com> From: cyg Simple X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56BCD05C.2040409@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BC940F.6070109@zoho.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00164.txt.bz2 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. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple