Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3354 mails)

[dwain <dwain.alford@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 20:39, dwain wrote:
>   
>> David Brodbeck wrote:
>>     
>>> Rajko M. wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Beagle is not alone, the update of manpages is also tax on computer..
>>>>         
>>> Not to mention ZMD.  I thought I was going to have to turn off beagle,
>>> but once I removed ZMD my system stopped becoming unresponsive and I no
>>> longer felt the need to disable beagle.  I've never had beagle make my
>>> system unusable but ZMD used to do it all the time.  It was tempting to
>>> blame beagle because beagle indexing and ZMD updates were often running
>>> at the same time, and the combination of the two is a real killer.
>>>       
>> As a new user, what is ZMD and is it necessary for system functionality?
>>     
>
> Dwain,
>
> It is:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Zmd
>
> and it is not necessary, since YaST is doing for years all that zmd should do 
> for individual user, but without hogging resources on smaller machines, ie. 
> without problems :-) 
>
> Install opensuseupdater if you want notifications about security updates. 
> I wanted. 
>
> Than remove zmd, zen-updater, zen-installer, zen-remover and rug. 
>
>   
thanks for all of the advise.  i removed a lot of unwanted programs and
it seemed that with the dependencies stripped the system bare.  i
haven't rebooted yet, but i'll find out what's what here shortly.  gotta
reboot.  cross your fingers.

dwain

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