On Sunday, May 08, 2011 08:23:24 AM Carl Hartung wrote:
IMHO the problem is there are now too many and overlapping 'specialty' (or 'boutique') indexers, each stepping on my and each other's toes when I'm trying to just concentrate on my work.
They can be unobtrusive and if you use GNOME then just lower the speed of indexing in Indexing settings. Not to mention that once tracker is done there should be no much activity, but right now that is not completely true, if you put *.iso in the list of files that should not be indexed.
Notwithstanding the added privacy and security implications,
Security in what way? If you have concern about one application, tracker, then think again. Any application can scan your computer and phone data to its originator, and indexer is not the most appropriate name for one that should work behind your back.
if these things just worked silently in the background, virtually undetectable and unobtrusively, I'd have no complaints. But the fact that I was compelled to track the processes down and disable them, then remove them, says a great deal about their efficacy and desirability.
The same here. First thought was :"Hey a new Beagle!", and in some way it is due to unhealthy default to index with maximum speed. Whoever did that has forgotten disaster few releases ago, when Beagle and mandb would start to compete for hard disk some 15 minutes after boot and no computer was able to run until mandb was done. Defaults, that is so easy to change in the settings, are good only for new users that have not much to index in their directories. Later, tracker is monitoring changes and index only changed files. Although, even then default should be modest use of resources as no one likes to have random slowdowns when tracker wakes up to index some change, and that change is new *.iso file (not in a list of files that should not be indexed). I can imagine guy downloading iso file and running disk burning software when tracker silently starts to index the same file with maximum speed :) -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org