Joe, On Monday 02 July 2007 11:20, Joe Shaw wrote:
Hi,
On 7/2/07, Sunny <sloncho@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/2/07, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> 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
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