Away from my desktop for a day or two but I can answer some questions I think.
Yes very! There's no way there were that many files and folders modified today (see below about how the files are not being filtered according to the dm condition). Regarding the delay, usually my Everything searches return results immediately. Sometimes Everything appears to freeze for awhile before it finally returns a result. But on this desktop I have other programs freezing, especially my xplorer2 file manager. I thought the huge size of my Everything database might be a problem for my system. But today I discovered my Manictime (time logger) database is 500+MB so now I wonder if that could be causing my "not responding" problems.Everything finds 26 million files and 2 million folders modified today.
The search takes 75 seconds.
Is this unexpected?
As far as the "dm:today" and other dm commands, what I mean by "not working" is that the results are not being filtered according to the specified date condition, it's as if the "dm:today" were not there at all. For example I had "ext:jpg" in the same search, and Everything showed all my jpg files (millions). And even with "date-modfied:today" entered in the search box, those same jpgs were displayed, from all dates, not just those for today. Oddly enough a date-modified condition entered in the format "dm:2024-04-01..2024-04-05" DID filter the results to show only files modified on those dates. And the number of files shown for this search is very modest, nothing like the 26 million indicated above.-Could you please expand on the 'not working' -Is Everything not showing these files for you after 75 seconds?
Will do when I can access the desktop again within the next couple of days. In case it's pertinent, it's an old system, it's got 24GB DDR3 RAM, I think 2x8GB + 2x4GB modules. Thanks for your help!-What is shown in the status bar? 0 items or Querying...?
To me the query time is unexpected.
-This query should only be taking ~0.36 seconds. (32 million files and 4 threads) -Check your CPU is not throttled.
(on my PC, I'm seeing: ~0.045 seconds per 1 million files and one thread at ~4ghz)
The query is most likely bottle necking your RAM. -please also check your RAM, make sure it's using dual channel or quad channel.
Maybe Everything is being paged-to/unpaged-from disk..
Enable virtual_lock to help keep Everything in RAM.
Statistics: Posted by jimspoon — Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:24 am