Re: [Nautilus-list] Medusa

[Rebecca Schulman <rebecka eazel com>]

Ben Ford wrote:

> 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.
>

Medusa is only supposed to run once a day.
This certainly sounds like a bug.  I'd like to help fix the problem.
Would you be willing to help debug the problems medusa is having on your system?
If you could post a stack trace of medusa when you feel it is "hanging" your system,
that would be great.
(You can attach to the indexd process using gdb.  If you need help doing this, feel
free to email,
or use irc #medusa at irc.eazel.com or another gimpnet server)
Also, medusa should be running an idle daemon to ensure that indexing isn't done
while you are actually
using your computer.  Are you having problems with slowness while running an X
session?

Rebecca


>
> 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
>
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