GoogleDesktop - After 48 hours its only at .1%

[Wade Smart]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 09:42:41 Wade Smart wrote:
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>> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
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>>> You're lucky to even see the interface. All I get is a blank page, even 
>>> after several, several.... several hours.
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>> Well, as of this morning, its not indexed any other files. The GD groups 
>> it seems has one person from Google who knows anything but they are only 
>> interested in the help system. There are more problems than working 
>> software I think.
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>> Youre right, beagle works so Im uninstalling gd.
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> Well, what can I say? I just found out that my problem was firewall related. 
> It seems GDL needs to ping localhost, and I was unintentionally blocking it.
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> It seems to be ok now. It's  Back to google-liking mode.
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> About your indexing problem, check if your ~/.google seems to be growing.
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> I remember reading in the help site that the indexing always resets to 0%, 
> when the daemon starts, but only for informational purposes. The data indexed 
> is preserved.
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> Have you tried removing your .google dir and restarting from scratch? What 
> about uninstalling and re-installing the program?
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> regards
> FF
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07112007 1802 GMT-6 DST

I read about the .google file but it hasnt grown.
I did uninstall and then reinstall - same situation.
The forums (google) seem to suggest that overall, many on linux 
platforms are finding that its not indexing all files, that its doing so 
slowly, that its sucking massive resources... and while obviously not 
everyone is having this trouble, those who are are not receiving any 
help on the forums/groups. The one Google post was, "Thank you for 
pointing out our help files are not fully complete." What a useless 
post. I dont understand why it uses so much ram and cpu? Beagle might 
not be the best but it works.

I installed GoogleEarth today. I noticed that it too consumed a LOT of 
memory. The interface blanks out much of the time too.  It only is 
happening with Google products but its strange that it is happening on 
my system. With 1G of ram I wouldnt expect this problem(s).  But maybe 
its time for more.

Wade