Joe Shaw writes: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:08 -0500, Michael Blaustein wrote: > >> 2. Same question about files in .beagle/TextCache - can they be > >> safely deleted; if so, when; and can beagle do this itself? > >> This is a serious issue for me, since this directory is rapidly > >> exhausting my hard drive space. > > > They can be deleted, but it means that you won't have snippets in most > search results.
I don't know what snippets are in this context. > >> 3. Is there any way for a user to control the amount of memory beagle > >> (really beagled-helper) takes up? Every time I start beagle, > >> by rebooting or by loggin on to my account, there is a longish > >> time when indexing takes up 50-60 percent or more of memory, > >> and as a result no other process can run reasonably responsively. > >> (exercise_the_dog is not set.) > > > The beagle-helper process monitors its own memory usage and if it > crosses a threshold it will shut itself down and restart at the end of > the current batch of indexing. If you're seeing extended periods of > time where the memory usage is pretty high (and never going back down), > you're probably hitting a bug in one of the file filters. Examining the > index helper logs might help identify the problematic file. Yes! It seems (so far) that a bad MSWord file was responsible for all the memory hogging. It might be nice if beagle learned to handle this more gracefully; of course, I deleted that file . . . Thanks for all the explanations. _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers