KDE Frameworks 5.60 Bringing More Baloo Optimizations

[archkde]

Will it still write hundreds of megabytes to disk when creating any file?

[lolren]

OMG! just gave baloo another chance, as i kept it disabled for being slow for the last few months . It quite ok now, fast and does not slow the laptop. Will start using it from now on!

[StefanBruens]

yes, it is! the alternative on windows, a free search utility, everything from voidtools, it`s the best search tool there is. Baloo is slow, buggy and makes the pc slow! Not acceptable!

From the Everything FAQ:

How long will it take to index my files?
"Everything" only indexes file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build its database.

The same is true when you disable "Content Indexing" for Baloo.

Does Everything search file contents?
Yes, "Everything" can search file content with the content: search function.
File content is not indexed, searching content is slow.

Thanks, no ...

[lolren]

A few milliseconds to find 100 files out of 4000 files is slow? My dear ...

yes, it is! the alternative on windows, a free search utility, everything from voidtools, it`s the best search tool there is. Baloo is slow, buggy and makes the pc slow! Not acceptable!

[dremon_nl]

Why does anyone even want a file indexer?
i usually disable them as soon as i spot them and they are one of the reasons i prefer xfce (but looking more into budgie lately)

To quickly find files by name or content.
I usually keep content indexing disabled because it ls too slow. But searching by name is very useful, for example to find some old PDF which you don't really remember where it is. Especially useful with corporate Dropbox with shitton of documents.

[StefanBruens]

Speed and responsiveness is lacking. This is especially true relative to the third party file indexer "Everything"

A few milliseconds to find 100 files out of 4000 files is slow? My dear ...

[flower]

Why does anyone even want a file indexer?
i usually disable them as soon as i spot them and they are one of the reasons i prefer xfce (but looking more into budgie lately)

[StefanBruens]

Afaik KDE and Qt are using KIO which I heard is pretty slow and buggy by design, so apparently this could be one of Baloo's bottlenecks.

Wrong. Baloo uses direct file system accesses.

[miabrahams]

Whats your problem exactly? Baloo does real time indexing ...

Speed and responsiveness is lacking. This is especially true relative to the third party file indexer "Everything"

[cl333r]

Afaik KDE and Qt are using KIO which I heard is pretty slow and buggy by design, so apparently this could be one of Baloo's bottlenecks.