Sloan wrote:
Evans Garde wrote:
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I've been running openSUSE 10.3 for a week, and I'm quite satisfied. This morning I began work and noticed my machine was unusually slow. I launched 'top' and saw that a process called beagled-helper consumed no less than 80% CPU (I'm working on a PIV 2.4 GHz). Is this some daily indexing process or what? BTW, I left my machine running all night.
The beagle is highly annoying beast.
First, when left alone, like in the back yard, it will howl like an insane child, that is when it isn't trying to dig a hole under the fence to run off to who knows where.
And if one is let onto your computer, it will consume resources as if the whole purpose of your computer is to run beagle and beagled-helper.
While I wouldn't have phrased it exactly as Mr Garde has, I certainly noticed an overall performance hit due to beagle. The system was sluggish, and subject to longish pauses. Going catatonic for a second or two while playing quake 3 arena online makes for some bitter memories. After I nuked beagle, the system was generally silky smooth and responsive from that point on.
I hate the fact that new users of suse are blindsided by this, not suspecting the presence of the beagle thrashing their system, and come away with the impression that linux is sluggish.
Joe
Not only beagle, but the opensuse Updater applet as well. This starts a zypper refresh at each login to kde unless you uncheck the option that it start on each login. Standard practice on every 10.3 install: (1) remove beagle with: rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep beagle | sed '/^lib.*/d') kerry && rm -r ~/.beagle (2) on first login to kde or gnome, right-click the openSuSE Updater in the task-bar, uncheck "start on login", click quit, just remember to run updates manually or schedule them automatically at a certain time; DONE - No more slowness, crisp performance from boot-to-"end current-session" -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org