From kde-devel  Thu Mar 30 01:56:45 2006
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:56:45 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Disabling kbuildsycoca
Message-Id: <442B3ADD.8010608 () acm ! org>
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Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  If you ever tried to update a KDE from binary packages while it was 
> running you could see that after a package is installed kbuildsycoca is 
> automatically executed as it notices that new files were installed. And 
> this is done for every single package, altough it would be more than 
> enough to do only after the whole upgrade was finished
> The problem becomes when there are more users logged on to the machine, 
> as a kbuilsycoca instance is executed for every user and for every 
> package. This can easily slow the PC down to an unusable state with 
> heavy loads and results in a long upgrade time. 
>  Question: is it possible to disable kbuildsycoca for a certain period? 
> I can easily run it after the upgrade was done manually.

IIUC, the real issue is FAM.  My solution to this is to renice the FAM 
daemon to 19 while I am installing a lot of new files.

-- 
JRT
 
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