Joe, On Monday 02 July 2007 11:20, Joe Shaw wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/2/07, Sunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/2/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the hijack, but looks like related - does anybody has a > > list of the differences between GoogleDesktop and beagle? Including > > performance monitoring, etc. > > I'm working on a blog post about it, but the short of it: > > * GDL isn't open source; Beagle is. > * GDL indexes Gmail, whereas Beagle doesn't. > * Beagle indexes a *lot* more stuff than GDL. > * GDL's indexing process is a lot slower than Beagle's > * GDL's searching seems to be a lot faster, at least for initial > results -- GDL slows down as you page through results. > * Both Beagle and GDL present results sorted by date, not relevance.
Google Desktop has both by-date and by-relevance display options. > * In my experience on my very large (107 GB) home directory, GDL > absolutely hammers my system. It never seems to peg the CPU, but the > hard drive is always running. Odd. What I've noticed over the few hours since it's been running is that it has been entirely unobtrusive. It's now been running 4 hours and has indexed 37.4% of the files in the directories I've configured. That's currently ~17,800 emails and ~6,000 files. I've been working away in IDEA (Java IDE) and doing ANTLR and Ant builds along the way. I have a huge store of PDF and PostScript research papers, and they're the primary reason I care about local content-based indexing. > My kjournald process is in disk wait > (D) a lot of the time and load average jumps from under 1 to over 4. > The desktop is a lot less responsive. I've found Beagle to be a lot > less intrusive, the occasional bug aside. > * GDL does seem to use less memory during its normal run, but grows > over time -- possibly leaks. > > The double-control to bring up a search UI is similar to GNOME's > deskbar applet w/ Beagle support, which we don't ship enabled by > default. Ah. I was wondering what made that happen. I activated it inadvertently earlier and didn't know how nor could I replicate it. > Its richer web interface is a little bit more like the main > Beagle interface (F12 on SUSE) but isn't sorted at all by category > unless you refine your search. > > Joe Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
