Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 11:18 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com) by oever
Parent article: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

I wouldn't go around saying your the fastest this or the fastest that unless you actually are able to back it up with something.

Tracker for me is very fast. It has a unnoticable impact on even laptops when it's just started for the first time. After running for several days the thing is still using only 7MB rss.

Also it's FUSE friendly, which I like since I serve all my media files over sshfs. How does Strigi work on FUSE?

I donno. I'm willing to try anything and it seems like tracker development folks realy aren't that active, unfortunately.

I know that it's going to be a while before you get down to one or two engines that people will like overal.

Does anybody have any experiances with anything else?

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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 11:42 UTC (Tue) by oever (subscriber, #987) [Link]

Here's a comparison. Note that it is somewhat outdated.

Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 17:20 UTC (Tue) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]

That benchmark was released about a week before the latest tracker release, which was supposed to massively improve the speed of tracker. According to the tracker website, the indexing is _much_ faster now, and they claim to be able to index 100 files per second on ext3 (according to them, basically the maximum possible speed taking I/O time into account). This is more than twice as fast as Strigi in the benchmark you posted, although it goes without saying that the tests would need to be run on the same machine to really be comparable.

Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 19:03 UTC (Tue) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

Still, does tracker have the deep indexing feature?

Anyway, numbers would be good. Maybe I can try to provide some, or LWN.net
will figure something out ;-)