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Re: Using extra computer resources
by Aaron J. Seigo on Thursday 03/Mar/2005, @15:36
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> adding background search indexing is going to hurt there because it will make
> the harddisk access times worse
it seems that we will likely only have to index files "relevant" to desktop search. so... we likely won't be indexing things like the http cache, or system directories, or tmp directories, or ... the number of "relevant" file writes and locations is, hopefully, manageable.
by plugging support for such things into the file dialogs, we should be able to catch many such file writes quickly.
this doesn't mean it's without yet-to-be-solved challenges such as which locations to index by default, or how to pick up changes that were made on the file system but not through the system (changed file notifications, basically). there's also the factor of how up to date the search needs to be in relationship to the file system.
when someone saves 100 files in one go to the filesystem, do they need to be indexed immediately? what are the "rules" that govern this?
when someone removes 100 files from the filesystem, how quickly do they need to be removed from the index?
etc... the file indexer will be an interesting project in its own right. =) |
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