[524] in Athena User Interface
Re: Medusa doesn't play well with AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Sun Dec 17 16:15:00 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 17 Dec 2000 13:05:31 -0800
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:21:56 -0500"
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"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> So Medusa (the file indexing program that comes with Nautilus)
> attempts to index the entirety of AFS in the default configuration.
> This is obviously poor. If you are running Nautilus on a local Athena
> machine, I recommend deleting Medusa's cron entry to prevent it from
> running. I'll do this on the machines I've installed Nautilus on in
> NW42 by Monday, if no one else gets there first.
>
Hi,
Rebecca set up Medusa not to index remote NFS filesystems for similar
performance reasons, she'd probably be glad to do a similar setup for
AFS, especially if you guys provide a patch, since we don't have an
AFS testing environment at Eazel.
Regards,
Maciej
