On Tuesday 18 December 2007 05:52:32 Pete Connolly wrote:
On Monday 17 December 2007 16:47:31 Adam Jimerson wrote:
On Monday 17 December 2007 08:37:56 am Kevin Dupuy wrote:
Furthermore, as I mentioned on the "other" thread, I'm trying to figure out why Beagle takes up so much CPU and memory in some people's computers
I have no problem with beagle, and I find it a nice way to graphically search for things that I have misplaced. The only time I have trouble with it taking up a lot of my system is during the first run on a clean install, after that it waits until midnight to update its index on my desktop, which has a Intel Cereron D 3.33 Ghz processor and 512 MB ram 2 gig swap.
I'm also confused about the reported problems with Beagle. I'm using KDE with the Kerry search front end and it has zero impact on my PC use, but adds a lot of value when looking for many types of data. Emails from two years ago? Yep, I can find them in seconds. Contracts in OOo format, spreadsheets, instant messenger exchanges in Kopete - I can search them all in an instant with Kerry and Beagle.
I would agree with this. I don't use it all the time, but it's great when I know I have seen something before, but can't quite remember where or when, and can fire up Kerry and find it quickly. That's it real use for me, when I know I've seen something, but for the life of me can't remember where...
I can see how it could hog CPU with malformed files, initial searching of the disk (anyone tried Google desktop search? That doesn't take CPU time, but does things very, very slowly) and maybe when you've added a huge amount of indexable data in a single day, but it honestly doesn't impact my work, rather it adds to my productivity.
Hmmmm - so just _how_ productive are you now, Pete? ;-)
While some user's setups might not be optimal for Beagle, I think there are a lot of people that like it, just like me.
I really don't think (or hope) there are that many people just like you... Happy Christmas, Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org