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From:	Byron Boulton <daytonb AT zoho DOT com>
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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:33:56 -0500
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On 2/11/2016 1:18 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmmm, the reason the slowness is particuarly strange to me is that in 
place of using `locate` from my cygwin terminal, I have to use a program 
called "Everything Search Engine" available at www.voidtools.com. The 
first time I install it, it takes maybe a few minutes to index the hard 
drive, then every once in a while when I open the program it takes a few 
seconds to update the index, but in general the performance for indexing 
and searching the index if comparable to `updatedb` and `locate` on a 
Linux machine, so it's possible to do on Windows.

Byron


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