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[Evens Garde <evans.garde@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:58:52 -0400, Evans Garde wrote:
>
> > John Andersen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Larry Stotler
> > > <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Just my 2 cents, but I also find absolutely no point in Beagle.  While
> > > > it may be convient if you have 1000+ documents, with what little most
> > > > people do, there's no point in it.  I make sure it's not installed on
> > > > any system I do.
> > > Worse than that Larry, if you have a small amount of documents its not
> > > needed, but if you have 20 years of business records on line it will
> > > kill you machine.
> > >
> > > When you need it, it won't work.
> > Essentially, if you need beagle, you have to devote a whole server to
> > it.  double-plus-ungood.
>
> I don't find this to be the case.  I use it occasionally (not regularly), 
> and I do find performance issues resulting from the indexer (and often 
> have to kill many beagle-helper processes that just pile up), but I find 
> with the number of IMs I have (I use pidgin heavily for work) and the 
> sheer number of documents I have, it does the job OK enough for me.  When 
> ti really starts to take over the system, I nuke it.
>
> Having it not search remote filesystems helps *a lot*..

I don't have ANY remote filesystems, and it's still a dog.

> Jim

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