On Friday 21 December 2007 06:15:54 Gary Baribault wrote:
OK, here's the issue: you're not "most people". I'm not most people. All of us subscribed to this mailing list are probably not most people. And most people don't name their files orderly, and put them in logical places. I've seen people who write something about a project about the Civil War and name it "project.doc". I would name it "Civil War Project.odt", and that person put the file in their My Pictures folder because that's where the Save dialog box is open to. They are the people who would benefit most from Beagle, and that's also about 90% of the computing population, so if openSUSE wants to reach that 90%, it a good idea to have Beagle installed by default and turned on.
Unless of course that solution destroys the performance on the target system. I am the one who started this thread, and as I stated at the beginning, I have a dual core Turion L52 64bit processor, 1.5Gigs of memory and a 7200 RPM Sata drive, and the performance went out the door. Other than a large MBox in my Thunderbird, I don't have that much data to index, and Beagle took 700Meg or RAM and 1Gig of SWAP, niced or not, that causes a lot of swapping.
Gary B
Notwithstanding the fact that Beagle created performance issues on your system, have you considered converting from MBox to Maildir format for your mail? This will increase performance both in terms of reading mail and also probably for Beagle (which probably tried to load your entire MBox file into memory in order to index your mail). It doesn't have to do that with Maildir since each mail is a separate file. There is a script floating around the net somewhere (I may even have a copy) which converts MBox to Maildir format without trashing the original mbox file so you can revert if you really need to. Funnily enough, I think the script is called mbox2maildir. If you're interested I'll see if I still have it and email it to you. Rodney. ============================================================ Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@optusnet.com.au ============================================================ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org