Beagle and Its Dog Slow Indexing

I’ve decided to turn on Beagle on my FC5 box to give it a try. What I don’t understand is why it takes so damn long to index my hard drive. I set the environmental variable BEAGLE_EXERCISE_THE_DOG=1 before I started beagled, and it’s been indexing my drive for the past 6+12+ hours. Why is it so slow? Does indexing really take that long?

Update: I’m fed up with it and I won’t bother anymore. Go to hell beagle. You can’t even find my little .bashrc in my home directory. Back to using locate……

~ by haydeé on April 23, 2006.