Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [opensuse] RE: enourmous number of compressed files under .beagle subdirectory under users home directory Open SUSE 10.2
- From: "Joe Shaw" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:14:42 -0400
- Message-id: <f8203010704090814j77c38ca6tc1b624c530f78978@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Scott,
On 4/9/07, Registration Account <alpha096@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's used for the generation of snippets in search results. It stores
the searchable textual content of documents for which it would be too
slow to extract the relevant text at search-time.
The use of the word "cache" here is a bit of a misnomer, because it
never expires. (Well, items are removed when you delete files.) You
can safely delete the directory if you want. It won't cause any
problems, but you won't get snippets in search results. However,
documents indexed after that point will still go into a recreated
TextCache.
If you're using Beagle 0.2.16.3(*), you can pass in
--disable-text-cache to the beagled process; this will delete any
existing text cache and prevent anything from being written to it in
the future.
(*) http://software.opensuse.org/download/Beagle/
Joe
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On 4/9/07, Registration Account <alpha096@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My home directory contains the hidden file /.beagle . There is a
subdirectory named TextCache. It currently hold 155 Subdirectories each
with aprox
180 .Gzip files. This is an enormous amount of HDD space and there
appears no limit to the size it will grow. Can anyone tell me its
purpose.
It's used for the generation of snippets in search results. It stores
the searchable textual content of documents for which it would be too
slow to extract the relevant text at search-time.
The use of the word "cache" here is a bit of a misnomer, because it
never expires. (Well, items are removed when you delete files.) You
can safely delete the directory if you want. It won't cause any
problems, but you won't get snippets in search results. However,
documents indexed after that point will still go into a recreated
TextCache.
If you're using Beagle 0.2.16.3(*), you can pass in
--disable-text-cache to the beagled process; this will delete any
existing text cache and prevent anything from being written to it in
the future.
(*) http://software.opensuse.org/download/Beagle/
Joe
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| < Previous | Next > |