Hi Daniel/Joey, I can just agree with you Daniel. Personally, I would prefer to suffer speed and some search functionality to make any low memory system for wheezy work out of the box. I hope an acceptable solution can be agreed about and maybe already implemented for wheezy.
Cheers Bertil ________________________________ Från: Daniel Hartwig <mand...@gmail.com> Till: Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org>; 685...@bugs.debian.org Kopia: Bertil <bkronmailbox-deb...@yahoo.se> Skickat: lördag, 25 augusti 2012 17:36 Ämne: Re: Bug#685756: apt-xapian-index makes 256 MB RAM laptop very unresponsive On 24 August 2012 23:58, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Bertil wrote: >> (i) Debian installer: >> In the installer task (Debian Desktop), one can consider to exclude the >> package as default. > > This is difficult to do while aptitude Recommends it. Although the > installer has stopped using aptitude in some places, it seems likely to > remain installed by default. Aptitude still functions ok without axi: - some searches such as full text (?term) are much slower; and - ?term[-prefix] loses special handling of XP, XT, etc. prefixes which may break some queries, e.g. “?term-prefix(XPemacs24)” no longer matches. The XP prefix handling is not documented in aptitude, so I think that it being “broken” without axi is not a serious concern and can be fixed later. Dropping axi to Suggests should not be a problem, however it is still quite useful, so … >> (ii) apt-xapian-index install: In the 'Setting up apt-xapian-index', do not >> automatically start the background task ..rebuilding index.. >> since the processor will shuffling data between physical memory and swap and >> not finish the task. >> (iii) apt-xapian-index: The program could check for sufficient memory and not >> start the rebuild task if memory low or should not run at all. See #564896 which has some discussion about these suggestions. The (unimplemented) consensus seems to be to disable automatic index generation on low memory systems. Regards
