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According to Arun Biyani on 7/10/2006 5:23 PM:
> I have been running "updatedb" via a cron job for almost 6 months now.
> It is started
> at 11PM & is usually done in an hour. Recently, I have been noticing
> that there is a
> "find" job still running when I get in, in the morning.

This looks like this thread may be relevant:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00331.html

Can you try setting PRUNEPATHS=/proc in your environment, and see if that
helps cut down the time updatedb takes by cutting down what it traverses?

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