X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=gDxRLexsVUWbzHYQ E/hjCN2VdmjKvnSENOGqrGykRRV8P3u3bDcFaTXIk/wDXYzQbkRryf3/YTl5Xvq8 HtrCBDv7/kdslWp6mWQwCjWSrYflokmYdljnkYEq1svWennfPH2NSh/XTVqONB0s ujo9gcA+qe17Y7aLIn28JKa9/p0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=mrzP2zZzh6RfSMdW08/57D A1Bfs=; b=MBN5G2tecJjBnfwlYZoBInl/ubwwXX8SJqqYU2Om5lHbFpuDGqKOLI r7LqG7VIN95peYvdDgNQaxEHSnMjskHK+UCCPaJiEwPJcEKQwzQwv67Mhyza0Pr1 8oPIznSNxMLcV0eEDcDbJ+TiYtHhtejoj3k3TNTwPmv3ySUpXeps4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 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) Subject: Re: locate and updatedb To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <56BC940F DOT 6070109 AT zoho DOT com> From: cyg Simple X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56BCD05C.2040409@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:18:04 -0500 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 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