here's an interesting problem: http://drupal.org/node/291378

apparently core update status, when enabled, checks on all pages and in turn slows sites down - it would be great to use your module to override this configuration and tell 'update status' to only check from within the following page/pages: admin/modules and not modules/* (all) as it can bring admin page load to a crawl

OR perhaps only 'manual updates' when enabled (that would be *best*)

right now, i believe that if i disable update status, i am unable to 'check manually' for updates, but would love to leave enabled and then perform this task as desired

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rondp commented

+1

Also wondering if cron.php might not be the better option to check for updates, rather than something that runs with every page load.

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dww
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

update.module doesn't check on every page load. That only happens if there's no cached data -- due to some error fetching the data in the first place. Normally, it only *checks* for updates via hook_cron(), but reports the update status on admin/* if there are missing security updates.

a) It's impossible via the module to stop update.module from doing what it's already doing as described above.

b) I'd rather the time was spent fixing the underlying problem in update.module.

Therefore, won't fix.