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=Z7hqBBx24hrYImDN uFF6GaZgpybfmU9HRP4Uw/RvGaKWquptvuGcEi9md4Z4kZo1jtBjooLou2fLtZGf KH6ATt1mAgu/WXnxN6WpV74KvINPXmU8xMycg5WoVkfmXaIWejgclFUyo5X5ldb1 TctfIVsmbO8uIRTHYxVDIPDXOes= 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=fQsN3281beETodtSq4BYQp yY8dk=; b=xN5LY2BvIkjq9jEIwwQCdDYXqZPKb1i2mnA0A/cyfSIHRIYmv+F2Zg HdnMtGyA/P9EiFoKLOVEzG8DEKERnd4JHwTRC+XntagiK8+gbino6lAY4eq9MwHl ZVGDHufQpG0M9suDgxfzQMOXl83XXF0s9qaHOUzeoLA0TRulHdOpE= 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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Everything, Engine, Hx-languages-length:1379, H*f:sk:56BCD05 X-HELO: sender153-mail.zoho.com Subject: Re: locate and updatedb To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <56BC940F DOT 6070109 AT zoho DOT com> <56BCD05C DOT 2040409 AT gmail DOT com> From: Byron Boulton Message-ID: <56BCD414.2010304@zoho.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:33:56 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BCD05C.2040409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Zoho-Virus-Status: 1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- 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