Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2835 mails)

["Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a performance tip that I would like to share.

I noticed that something called nepomuk was eating 80% of my cpu, and it
was also eating a lot of ram.
Nepomuk is (as far as google can tell me) a backend for the strigi desktop
search.

If you're a bit like me, you have no use for a frakkin' desktop search
like strigi or beagle. All my data is well organized. Read about "Inbox
Zero" and "The Hamster Revolution" - everything about organizing email can
also be applied to every other kind of user data.

The bad thing for me was that strigi is enabled by default. I disabled it
in Configure Desktop -> Advanced -> Nepomuk. Then I uninstalled strigi.

I'm not going to report this somewhere as a bug, because then I'll have
the userfriendly police on my back.

Imho the ubiquitous usage of desktop search is a Bad Thing(tm). It's like
a junior DBA who has read his first book about database optimization and
says, hey let's just index everything!
While the *real* DBA knows that a well designed database is a better and
faster database. You don't index everything, you just index where you need
it and where it's useful. Same thing about desktop search, I don't want it
to index my /home.


Sorry, I'm getting off my soapbox now :)

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Amedee

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