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Re: [opensuse] Manual Install of Google Desktop on 10.0 [ was: Google has an openSUSE repository ]
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:33:17 -0700
- Message-id: <200707021133.17856.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Joe,
On Monday 02 July 2007 11:20, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 7/2/07, Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 7/2/07, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sorry for the hijack, but looks like related - does anybody has a
> > list of the differences between GoogleDesktop and beagle? Including
> > performance monitoring, etc.
>
> I'm working on a blog post about it, but the short of it:
>
> * GDL isn't open source; Beagle is.
> * GDL indexes Gmail, whereas Beagle doesn't.
> * Beagle indexes a *lot* more stuff than GDL.
> * GDL's indexing process is a lot slower than Beagle's
> * GDL's searching seems to be a lot faster, at least for initial
> results -- GDL slows down as you page through results.
> * Both Beagle and GDL present results sorted by date, not relevance.
Google Desktop has both by-date and by-relevance display options.
> * In my experience on my very large (107 GB) home directory, GDL
> absolutely hammers my system. It never seems to peg the CPU, but the
> hard drive is always running.
Odd. What I've noticed over the few hours since it's been running is
that it has been entirely unobtrusive. It's now been running 4 hours
and has indexed 37.4% of the files in the directories I've configured.
That's currently ~17,800 emails and ~6,000 files. I've been working
away in IDEA (Java IDE) and doing ANTLR and Ant builds along the way.
I have a huge store of PDF and PostScript research papers, and they're
the primary reason I care about local content-based indexing.
> My kjournald process is in disk wait
> (D) a lot of the time and load average jumps from under 1 to over 4.
> The desktop is a lot less responsive. I've found Beagle to be a lot
> less intrusive, the occasional bug aside.
> * GDL does seem to use less memory during its normal run, but grows
> over time -- possibly leaks.
>
> The double-control to bring up a search UI is similar to GNOME's
> deskbar applet w/ Beagle support, which we don't ship enabled by
> default.
Ah. I was wondering what made that happen. I activated it inadvertently
earlier and didn't know how nor could I replicate it.
> Its richer web interface is a little bit more like the main
> Beagle interface (F12 on SUSE) but isn't sorted at all by category
> unless you refine your search.
>
> Joe
Randall Schulz
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On Monday 02 July 2007 11:20, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 7/2/07, Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 7/2/07, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sorry for the hijack, but looks like related - does anybody has a
> > list of the differences between GoogleDesktop and beagle? Including
> > performance monitoring, etc.
>
> I'm working on a blog post about it, but the short of it:
>
> * GDL isn't open source; Beagle is.
> * GDL indexes Gmail, whereas Beagle doesn't.
> * Beagle indexes a *lot* more stuff than GDL.
> * GDL's indexing process is a lot slower than Beagle's
> * GDL's searching seems to be a lot faster, at least for initial
> results -- GDL slows down as you page through results.
> * Both Beagle and GDL present results sorted by date, not relevance.
Google Desktop has both by-date and by-relevance display options.
> * In my experience on my very large (107 GB) home directory, GDL
> absolutely hammers my system. It never seems to peg the CPU, but the
> hard drive is always running.
Odd. What I've noticed over the few hours since it's been running is
that it has been entirely unobtrusive. It's now been running 4 hours
and has indexed 37.4% of the files in the directories I've configured.
That's currently ~17,800 emails and ~6,000 files. I've been working
away in IDEA (Java IDE) and doing ANTLR and Ant builds along the way.
I have a huge store of PDF and PostScript research papers, and they're
the primary reason I care about local content-based indexing.
> My kjournald process is in disk wait
> (D) a lot of the time and load average jumps from under 1 to over 4.
> The desktop is a lot less responsive. I've found Beagle to be a lot
> less intrusive, the occasional bug aside.
> * GDL does seem to use less memory during its normal run, but grows
> over time -- possibly leaks.
>
> The double-control to bring up a search UI is similar to GNOME's
> deskbar applet w/ Beagle support, which we don't ship enabled by
> default.
Ah. I was wondering what made that happen. I activated it inadvertently
earlier and didn't know how nor could I replicate it.
> Its richer web interface is a little bit more like the main
> Beagle interface (F12 on SUSE) but isn't sorted at all by category
> unless you refine your search.
>
> Joe
Randall Schulz
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