Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Stroller wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2010, at 00:01, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> >> ...
> >> your understanding is wrong. Completely wrong. Seriously it hurts.
> >>
> >> start here:
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework)
> >>
> >> and then proceed with the links.
> >>
> >> google-desktop is something completley different (and something
> >> that can
> >> be replaced with find, locate and grep).
> >
> > Well, in 4.3.x I eliminated it after the first try, because it took
> > so many
> > resources of my machine, that I could not use it for something else.
> > So, you
> > mean, in 4.4.x it takes only a 10% of the resources it took with
> > 4.3.x? LOL,
> > although I really like the idea of the semantic desktop, I rather
> > have a
> > usable machine ...
>
> I don't use KDE, but when I freshly install Mac OS (or migrate to a
> new hard-drive) the Spotlight indexing hammers the drive for several
> hours. It is not reasonable to compare performance during this initial
> indexing period.
>
> There is no way the likes of `find`, `grep` and `locate` - useful as
> they are - can operate as efficiently as this kind of indexing (and
> Spotlight is pretty damn poor - your KDE implementation is surely
> loads better). I love `find`, `grep` and `locate` - they're fantastic,
> but my typical usage of them is to perform strict batch operations. If
> I just want to open a document then why would I wait for `find`,
> `grep` - or go hunting around manually in sub-directories of sub-
> directories - when I can just type a keyword into the search box and
> find it immediately?
>
don't forget that updatedb is hammering your harddisk regularly too - and it 
doesn't just index new files. Nope, it goes over the whole disk.