I was wondering why my Fedora 44 is slow running inside a virtual machine; finally I found that it is wasting CPU scanning huge imported filesystem from the host, via virtiofs. The fix is very simple, add virtiofs to PRUNEFS list inside /etc/updatedb.conf. Since this list already has 9p and various networked / distributed filesystems, the fact that it does not currently have virtiofs is an obvious omission.
I suggest you report as a bug and see what the maintainer of plocate thinks as this seems reasonable.
plocate does not maintain a default configuration for updatedb (see git.sesse.net Git - plocate/tree ). Instead the default updatedb.conf is maintained in the package source, see line 52 in Making sure you're not a bot! . Is this chat the right channel, or should I raise an issue at Bug List ?
Raise the bug against the package you found in the Fedora bugzilla.
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