nepomuk

[D. R. Evans]

Clay Weber said the following at 06/16/2010 04:39 PM :

> 
> Don't remove it, just shut it off. You won't loose any functionality really, 
> unless you use desktop searches (which include file *contents* as well), 
> regular searches fork fine without it.

Well I would really like to have a usable desktop search, so I don't mind
putting up with a bit of initial pain. I think I'll give it until tomorrow
morning. If it's still consuming everything then, I'll switch it off.

I guess the nepomuk in lucid must be very different from the one in karmic,
since it seems to be re-indexing so much. But that's not a bad thing, since
desktop search in karmic was, unfortunately, laughable (if one was in a
laughing mood, which I admit I rarely was when desktop search returned no
hits for items that I knew existed -- or, worse, a random subset of files
with hits). I have some hope that after all this work, the result will be a
desktop search system that is useful.

I have it set up to index everything under ~, which comes to ~500GB of data
in about 1,000,000 files. That seems reaonable to me, but maybe I have a
different idea of reasonableness from the KDE developers.

I don't think I'd find it so annoying if nepomuk figured out that it was
consuming the machine and throttled itself back. I suppose I could force it
to do so myself with nice and ionice, but really a user shouldn't have to
be fiddling with changing the priority of daemons.

  Doc

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