Re: [Nautilus-list] medusa - resource hog?

["Jon Allen" <joncallen hotmail com>]

> If you are running medusa using daily builds or cvs, there was a problem
> about a week ago in gnome-vfs that was causing it to take up much more
> memory than usual.  Updating your gnome-vfs and medusa should fix this
> problem.

Will grab latest build.  This problem didn't occur until I grabbed the 
latest snapshot rpm's several days ago.  Or at least the problem wasn't so 
severe.


If this is not the case, I'm sorry to hear that medusa is
> causing problems for you.  It would be really helpful if we could find
> out a little about your machines (disk size, amount of disk used, amount
> of memory, etc), and perhaps we can diagnose the problem more
> thoroughly.

AMD Athlon 300mhz (i586), running RedHat 6.0 (w/updates), kernel 2.2.5-15.  
64 MB memory, ~100 MB swap.  'df -k' =
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               199079     69777    119021  37% /
/dev/hda3               965833    872789     43148  95% /usr
/dev/hdb1              2974519   1622528   1198171  58% /usr3
/dev/hdb2              5228824   2568746   2389383  52% /usr2


Medusa does use a lot of resources, but it is doing a large
> job.  I haven't, however, with the exception of the bug listed above,
> seen it use up all of the memory on the machine, so if this is happening
> normally, we definitely want to address it.

I understand medusa's job and resource needs.  As I noted above, I doubt 
this problem will occur with the latest build.  But perhaps a redesign of 
medusa (e.g. incremental indexing, indexing-on-the-fly)  should be 
considered (well after the initial release, of course).
Thanks, Rebecca!

> Thanks,
> Rebecca
>
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
> > Le ven, 08 déc 2000 17:00:00, Jon Allen a écrit :
> >
> > > Is there any fine-tuning needed to resolve this problem?
> > > Perhaps a fix was
> > > put in place this week for this?
> >
> > Use a 2.4 kernel. I'm very pleased to repport I could check
> > the accuracy of the new OOM killer thanks to medusa. It did
> > kill the right job all the times (medusa.cron)
> >
> > --
> > Nicolas
> >
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