Is it just me or does Do now do the work of Beagle and Tracker as well? /Mårten
On Nov 1, 8:20 pm, Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for taking it seriously. It's not that big a problem, but I > thought there might be a bug. > > In general, I really appreciate Do's ability to find stuff quick, and > not only the thirty files I'm regularly working on. So the ability to > maintain a big universe is, in my eyes, desirable. It's also difficult > to tell for me at which indexing depth the thing loses traction and > just produces load. It's all thoroughly nested. Of course, many of the > actual items in my index are just numbered series of files. An option > to explicitly *exclude* certain paths would be nice to have. Or an > option to just index folder names in certain paths, and not the files > themselves. > > Use case: Somewhere in the depths of my photo collection, there's a > directory that contains all the images I've snapped at one event. All > my images are imported into folders whose names reflect the date of > production, and the images themselves have the numbered filename the > camera has given them. Currently, I can quickly navigate to the images > of the event by just entering the date in Do, which is really nifty, > but the filenames themselves are not good for anything. > > --Tobias > > On Oct 31, 4:04 pm, Jason Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Whoa! Ok I know what is causing this... We will have to rethink how we > > handle updating child items. We probably need to defer this to a really > > low priority that updates MUCH less frequently than universe. I will > > work on that today. > > > I imagine the best thing to do would be to do incremental updates to it, > > and then every 2 or 3 hours of running, completely clear its cache and > > start over. That would provide the CPU spike on you every 2 or 3 hours > > instead of every couple minutes while not being a memory leak. It would > > however grow its memory slightly more for that 2 or 3 hours period. > > > DBO > > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:21 -0700, Tobias wrote: > > > Well, those must be all the contents of my Documents directory, and Do > > > does an excellent job locating stuff inside. Many of them are pictures > > > and audio files and most files aren't moved around a lot. There's > > > certainly no point in indexing them every couple of minutes, much less > > > full throttle. But that's not the point. Rather, I didn't ever have > > > this behavior. It just came up a couple of days or weeks ago. It's > > > like there's something hanging for a while and then giving up with an > > > error. So I thought there might be something that's not working right. > > > > --Tobias > > > > On Oct 30, 12:31 am, "Alex Launi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How many files are you indexing? I think that giant universe size is the > > > > problem. Are any of those folders really populated? > > > > > -- > > > > --Alex Launi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
