mlocate mlocate is a new locate implementation.
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mlocate is a new locate implementation. mlocate is a new locate implementation. The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much.The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate. Eeach time, a computer was booted into single-user mode and after one updatedb run data was collected using slabtop and free. The measurement method is admittedly crude, but I think the numbers represent reality quite well.slocate 1m32.84 0.704 2.045 134337 170778 85972 8268mlocate, 1st 1m11.65 0.214 0.908 17766 15642 78452 21340mlocate, 2nd 37.64 0.105 0.289 17776 15639 33996 21336real, user, systemas reported by time dentry, inodenumber of active objects in dentry_cache and ext3_inode_cache, as reported by slabtop buffers, cachedsize of disk buffers and page cache, as reported by free mlocate has two rows because the first run needs to rescan the whole file system, while the subsequent runs can reuse most of the original database. What's New in This Release: · Three new or updated translations were added.

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