Re: beagle - can it clean up after itself?

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

>  1.  I've noticed that beagle fills my /tmp directory with scores of files
> named according to the pattern "tmpxxxxxxx.tmp".
>       When can these be safely  deleted, and can beagle take care of doing
> that itself?

Beagle is supposed to automatically delete them. When beagle is not
running, there should not be any tmp*.tmp files in the /tmp directory.
Those can be safely deleted when beagle is not running. In fact, if
there are tmp files then its is a serious BUG.

>  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.

The textcache is used to provide snippets in beagle-search. There is
an open bug in bugzilla about disabling textcache; note that without
textcache there would not be any snippets.

>  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.)

Its being actively worked on. From what I know, there would not be any
user setting to limit the memory but the performance in terms of
memory amd CPU usage will improve. The goal is to make beagled
imperceivable.

- dBera

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