Beagle on Ubuntu or Debian

Rajiv Vyas rajiv1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 00:34:29 UTC 2005


On 8/4/05, Charles Mauch <cmauch at taclug.org> wrote:
> Greetings from Tacoma, WA, USA, a Wasteland of Burning Tires, Rajiv!
> On Thursday, August 04, in the 2005th year of our Lord, you wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone tried Beagle on Ubuntu? What has been the experience so
> > far? I am tempted to try this but have heard some horror stories about
> > it clogging memory space and slowing down the PC.
> 
> I tried it about three weeks ago.  It took me a little bit of work to get
> it running, creating a custom kernel, finding all the dependencies, etc.
> 
> My experience is that beagle itself runs great, but that the beagle indexer
> leaks memory like a sieve.  It would begin working on my mutt mbox
> archives, and 10 minutes later the indexer had consumed more than 2
> gigabytes or ram+swap.  The only way I could kill it off at that point was
> to utilize an ssh session i had already opened to kill -9 it.
> 
> It's a neat toy to be sure.  But it's not ready for general use yet imho.
> 


I had tried it on SuSE 9.3 and it was a monster. The new .12 is
suppose to be good provided you have the inotify patch. BTW, you said
you have mutt. How easy is it to install? I have heard some horror
stories there too.

Thanks,

Rajiv




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