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Subject:	Re: locate and updatedb
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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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