Currently, the configfile /etc/updatedb.conf contains various settings. From the manpage: "Secure Locate will parse GNU Locate’s /etc/updatedb.conf when the argument is provided. But please be aware that Secure Locate currently does NOT support all options provided by GNU Locate’s configuration file. Options currently supported by Secure Locate are PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS" So the settings NICE, IONICE_CLASS and IONICE_PRIORITY get ignored, since slocate doesn't know about them. This cause cron to stall the system daily, as slocate gets installed into /etc/cron.daily and clogs IO. However, the fix is simple. Make the wrapper script in /etc/cron.daily pay attention to both nice and ionice. I basically added in the nice and ionice commands, whose values are taken from the config file. Here's how the file looks on my system: if [ -x /usr/bin/updatedb ] then if [ -f /etc/updatedb.conf ] then source /etc/updatedb.conf ionice -c${IONICE_CLASS} -n${IONICE_PRIORITY} nice -n${NICE} /usr/bin/updatedb else nice /usr/bin/updatedb -f proc fi fi
looks to me like slocate-3.1-r2 works fine
