Re: [Nautilus-list] Medusa

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Rebecca Schulman wrote:

> Darin Adler wrote:
>
> > on 3/30/01 11:37 AM, Ben Ford at ben kalifornia com wrote:
> >
> > > What makes medusa better than slocate?  Updatedb doesn't kill my box the
> > > way medusa does.
> >
> > Updatedb makes a list of file names. Medusa's indexing daemon indexes all
> > directory information, including things like modification dates as well as
> > file names, and also strings found inside text files.
> >
> > > Is there a way to configure medusa to only index when I want it to?
>
> Medusa currently creates an index each night as a cron job.  Cron allows you to
> let jobs run daily, weekly, or monthly,
> by moving the cron job in /etc/cron.daily to the appropriate directory.  If you
> only want medusa to create an index when you
> specifically ask, you can turn medusa off, and use the request index feature in
> nautilus, or run "medusa-indexd" by hand when you want to create a new index.

My apologies, I should have looked at cron.  I see medusa-indexd running 
every time I look, so I just assumed that it ran as a background daemon 
and indexed when load was low.  If it is only supposed to run once a day 
then, can we consider the fact that it doesn't stop running a bug?  I 
see you are aware of this by the fact that cron kills the process before 
it runs it.

Could I ask why this behaviour and why it kills this box so bad?  This 
was blindingly fast before I installed Nautilus and Medusa.

-b