XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2010-12-23, Homer  wrote:   
   > Verily I say unto thee, that Kelsey Bjarnason spake thusly:   
   >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:43:52 -0800, Rex Ballard wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Turn off indexing of the whole drive, and index ONLY the documents   
   >>> that you really need to search - preferably a subdirectory of "My   
   >>> Documents".  One of the problems with Indexing the entire drive on   
   >>> Windows, is that EVERY document, including cached web pages, e-mails   
   >>> and other "transitional" documents - end up in the index.   
   >>   
   >> So what?  I index everything from my home folder on down - which means   
   >> all my emails, all my documents, source code, game files, yadda yadda   
   >> yadda yadda.  If this slows down the system, there's a serious flaw in   
   >> the indexer; the correct solution is to fix the defective software.   
   >   
   > WRT Linux indexing software:   
   >   
   > It's an I/O scheduler problem. I haven't tried any indexers recently,   
      
       Tried changing that?   
      
   [deletia]   
      
       Either by changing the scheduler for the disk or by using ionice?   
      
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