[Popcon-developers] Debconf ideas

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:45:53PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org> wrote:
> >  - patch ld.so.cache to add an option to preserve the atimes of the
> >    libraries during indexing, and use it on the nightly cron job.  Like
> >    updatedb does.
> 
> ... except that everybody mounts with noatime, don't they?
> Hmm, maybe that's only production systems, I guess
> desktop systems can get away with atime.
> 
> Alternately, you could use inotify on /bin and /usr/bin,
> and track both file open and file close.  That would give
> you not only how often the program was run, but how long
> it ran, too.

Do you think the overhead will be less than without noatime ?

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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