Op 08-04-17 om 15:15 schreef Luca Beltrame:
The Baloo indexer shipped with Plasma does its job in two passes: first the file names are indexed (fast) then metadata and content are extracted (slow).
This second pass can be problematic and it's highly user-dependent, because the various metadata extractors have varying degrees of efficiency. When there is a problem with metadata extraction, it's often the cause of the high CPU usage and disk I/O reported.
One proposal we had in IRC was to change the behavior of the indexer (which is enabled by default): switch it to "basic indexing" which only indexes the names and not the metadata, as a solution for the above problem. There's a (config-only) option that does the job.
Due to a bug it was not possible to change that configuration and it was never saved to disk. We also plan to add a checkbox to toggle the option on and off in the configuration dialog (System Settings > Search) for those who use metadata search.
However it's a behavioral change: anyone who uses the default configuration will be affected by this. Hence this post to gather feedback. Should we do this, or not?
NOTE: This is about the *default*. If you have disabled Baloo nothing will happen.
For me the metadata extraction never really worked without problems, so I've disabled baloo. I would welcome having file indexing only and that is also the only part I use and need. I did not know there was a config option, so having a checkbox is an improvement. (Or I knew and forgot again). Changing the default would, in my opinion, depend on the question whether someone then looses the metadata index. Does it need to be done again after reenabling through the checkbox and how much time will that indexing take? If it needs to be recreated and it takes a lot of time (because someone has a lot of files), I would advise against a change. Thanks, Cor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org