Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:08:02AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
Might sound a bit emotional, but the "parse-metadata" problem turns 10.1 into a virtually unusable desktop for my customers (and me) really. In certain server setups it might be acceptable that the system needs up to 30 minutes after reboot before giving full power to the users. But on a desktop?
We cannot confirm this behaviour.
parse-metadata occassionaly leads to a slow down, but only a minute at most and not on bootup.
It blocks my three 10.1 systems always at bootup and never for less than 20 minutes. These are all installations from scratch.
To me it smells like the end of SUSE on desktops, really. As I am using and testing other linux distros as well I know that the only difference is Zen. My wild guess: Zen architecture prevents it from performing well. Because if it would be the implementation of Zen making its performance so ridiculous, we would find some messages concering fixes and dramatic improvements and timetables.
You are overblowing the issue.
I really wish you were right.
For the time being none of my customers will upgrade to 10.1 or switch to SUSE.
You can also do: /etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop rpm -e zmd rug zen-updater
Ofcourse, that's what I am doing. But I could also build linux from scratch then. The moment, Novell decides to drop "zmd rug zen-updater" from the default installation I can recommend this distro again. Why? Because my customers should NOT be dependent on me as person. So someone else with lesser linux know-how should be able to (re-)install SUSE Linux and get a well performing desktop system. Which is not the case with the current 10.1. FMF