Re: medusa. What good does that do?

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 11/28/00 5:57 AM, Paul E Johnson at pauljohn ukans edu wrote:

> I installed the Nautilus test packages and now I notice that a massive
> job medusa-indexd runs in the morning and slows my computer to a crawl.

We're aware of this problem and trying to figure out the best way to address
it.

> On the heels of slocate, it is quite a drag.  I never use locate, and
> have considered getting rid of it.  Medusa appears on the surface at
> least to be a new slocate.

Medusa does overlap with what slocate did, but besides the file names that
slocate indexes it also indexes the contents of text files and other file
attributes like size and MIME type.

> Can Nautilus run without it?

If you don't run the Medusa indexing and search daemons, Nautilus will still
work fine. I'm not sure exactly what you'd need to do to turn them off.

    -- Darin