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 1HMZeG-0003X8-3q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:59:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l210wbRP031285; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:58:37 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([202.146.86.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l210sDsx026591 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:54:15 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l210s8Mm004553 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:54:08 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper) From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1172708786.1055.13.camel@blackwidow.nbk> 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> <1172708786.1055.13.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:54:07 +0800 Message-Id: <1172710447.29992.10.camel@neuromancer.home.net> 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 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fff217c7-a75e-45a9-8277-90721a78d847 X-Archives-Hash: 313a32be22708aea41a4fce816376136 On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > 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 > 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. The find can only be used when the file are txt files and not pdf/OOo/Excel etc Unfortunately. I've only used it like 2-5 times thus far.. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list