Re: medusa. What good does that do?

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In message <3A23B9D3 7C20890D ukans edu>, Paul E Johnson writes:

>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. 
>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. Can Nautilus run without it?

I timed medusa-indexd and it took over 45 minutes before I killed it and
changed /etc/crontab to run my daily tasks at a time when I'm more likely to be
at home and sound asleep.  I like to hack into the early hours.

I have a feeling that medusa-indexd uses gobs and gobs of memory (~ 100 MB)
because when I return to my machine in the afternoon/early evening my swap use
exceeds 100 MB (a dozen or two MB would be more typical).

The machine in question is a dual processor 500 MHz Pentium III machine with
256 MB of memory and a pair of U2W 9 GB SCSI disks.  While it's not a dual 1
GHz Pentium III with a gigabyte of memory, it's nothing to sneeze at.

medusa-indexd must be either horribly inefficient or have just a bit too much
functionality for current machines.  Or maybe CVS medusa-indexd isn't
indicative of future production releases.

John

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