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The resource use has been the death of any full text desktop search I have tried to use. How lightweight is Recoll? I don't see much on this on the website, oth
by sgc 4y ago
The resource use has been the death of any full text desktop search I have tried to use. How lightweight is Recoll? I don't see much on this on the website, other than I have to use an third part CPU limiter if I want to limit CPU use.
- college_physics 4y agonever had to dig too deep as it is not noticeable (up to a certain index size of course https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INDEXING.STORAGE.BIG https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/usermanual....). index scheduling can be configured (cron) but for my purposes it works ok out of the box. what is quite handy usability-wise: incremental index updates (after inserting new files) are fast and can be done on the fly while fully using the desktop
- donio 4y agoBoth recoll and Xapian (the index engine) are written in C++. The document filters are in Python but they only run once per document and tend to be simple and fast (easy to add your own too btw). For my use case of 15GB or so PDF files it has been lean and fast. It has a pragmatic Unix tool feel. I am only using the CLI though so can't speak for the GUI. Another Xapian-based tool I use is notmuch (email) and that one is very snappy too.