Bryen wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 02:03 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 14:31 -0600, Bryen wrote:
Unless of course that solution destroys the performance on the target
system. I am the one who started this thread, and as I stated at the
beginning, I have a dual core Turion L52 64bit processor, 1.5Gigs of
memory and a 7200 RPM Sata drive, and the performance went out the
door. Other than a large MBox in my Thunderbird, I don't have that
much data to index, and Beagle took 700Meg or RAM and 1Gig of SWAP,
niced or not, that causes a lot of swapping.
I think a bigger and more appropriate question is to determine WHY your
performance is degraded.
Don't you see why it is degraded? It is obvious: his beagle used 700 MB of
RAM and 1GB of swap.
That's a software problem, a bug in beagle eating that much memory and
causing swapping. Not a hardware problem at all. Or are you saying that in
order to use beagle he should buy 2 Gigs more?
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
I'm saying I'm running it on my primary box with only 640MB RAM, 1 GIG
swap and I have no performance issues whatsoever. So, the fact that
hardware was discussed before I made my comment, it was to emphasize
that the hardware issue is probably moot. Somewhere there's a
configuration issue. And it ain't a common issue on every machine, so
the point is, instead of bashing Beagle as a problem for everyone, let's
focus on why its a problem for SOME people and not others. Then we can
get to the root of the problem.
Every time I've done a new installation of SuSE, beagle
starts up, and beats the hell out of my system -- even
a pure SCSI system with 5 hard drives on two controllers.
And I always have a preference for lots of memory and
swap space paired with CPU's of moderate speed (typically
top speed 6-9 months previous, but down to US $100 by
the time I purchase it).
Basically, it sounds like, for whatever beagle tries
to index...with YOUR data, it never consumes many
resources.
But evidently, for a large number of us, when beagle
attempts to process OUR data, it's appetite for memory
space and disk I/O is completely unrestrained, and causes
system performace for a modern desktop system to be worse
than that of a 1980's 64 MB, 30- MHz dual-CPU system with
100 users logged in doing edit/compile/execute cycles.
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