Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Alvaro Kuolas <kuolas@xxxxxxxxx>]

suse@xxxxxx wrote:
> Praise wrote:
>   
>> Alle 00:04, martedì 23 maggio 2006, Martin Soltau ha scritto:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> whenever I start up my Suse 10.1 the CPU is busy with 100% for about 4
>>> minutes. It seems to be the update checker. Is this correct? It seems to
>>> take very long... After it has finished, the system runs very smooth...
>>> What can I do?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Martin
>>>       
>> Maybe it is Beagle? I had it installed by mistake and it was sucking all my 
>> system's performance away.
>>
>>     
>
> The thing sucking up all resources at every login is the ZenWorks update
> system.  In addition to throttling your machine for 3-4 minutes on every
> login, it frequently crashes when trying to actually update the system.
>  Even if ZMD is set to only check once per day for new updates, it STILL
> does the full check every time you log in to X.
>
> With 10.1, there are now SuSE packages for apt, which takes up far fewer
> resources and, you know, actually works.
>
> Beagle is another major resource hog.  The day after I installed 10.1, I
> turned on my machine and beagle thrashed my hard drive for an hour and a
> half before I gave up, killed it and uninstalled it.
>
>
>   
Poor dog... I had to do the same :)