From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HMZIs-0005UL-6I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:37:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l210ZVH6011522; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:35:31 GMT Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l210QTB3031227 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:26:30 GMT Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588BF1EFED5 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:26:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:26:29 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: js8DUksv5qVy6ERmAWEYfXOYE+vOEeq8dSbwhJZ/BV6a 1172708788 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9826ECBB for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:26:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper) From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <8cd1ed20702281550y53964b75mf32d76d506860165@mail.gmail.com> References: <1172570953.32328.104.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <1172577988.7233.13.camel@yatahaze.skynet.local> <45E43046.5000902@herkild.dk> <1172583665.8371.2.camel@yatahaze.skynet.local> <1172655050.875.132.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <8cd1ed20702281550y53964b75mf32d76d506860165@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:26:26 -0600 Message-Id: <1172708786.1055.13.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2f1dd127-395e-4b62-a8a2-ffae47e88dbd X-Archives-Hash: 3e7e9c837fe6d8a2aa102cf16532e09f On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:50 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > How often do people here actually -use- beagle? > > I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the > default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little > more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG ' > quite frankly disgusting Some people may actually get more use out of it. For example I use it several times a day. I agree totally that it's far from perfect, but so far the best solution I've tried. A 'find ... |grep' would take a looong time to run just on my home directory. A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds of metadata. And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop for searching my stuff. Btw, I did a search for "string" in Beagle and it only took a few seconds to return some intelligent results. A similar 'find ... |grep' is still running after 17 minutes and is consuming a good amount of CPU in the process. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list