FP 5.6 Windows Install

[Brian K. White]

> Then I turned off NTFS filesystem indexing.  Indexing being turned on in
> a filesystem can slow down performance a good 30-50% itself on Win2K,
> and it's not so great under XP.  I'm not the only person that's had huge
> performance gains from turning off indexing, which is usually enabled by
> default--and mostly useless.  Smart money says Vista's filesystem access
> will crawl, with all the search power they claim to be putting into it.
> That power comes at a non-trivial cost that usually isn't worth paying.

Similarly I was disgusted by the eventual outcome of debugging terrible 
performance on the first few suse 10.0 and 10.1 boxes I installed.
It was this thing called "beagle" which apparently is a kde/gnome/other 
search tool that constantly indexes users documents and lets you find stuff 
faster.
(Whats faster than just knowing where you put things because you simply put 
things in some kind of simple organization in the first place?)
It involves a daemon , might have been several instances I don't remember, 
that sits there eating cpu and disk i/o bandwidth all the time. Might have 
been a cron job that made the backups take forever too. I don't remember 
every detail of it's evilness because I ripped it outta there and have been 
doing the same on all new boxes since.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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