On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Lars Kruczynski
I'm not impressed with Baloo at all, in fact it's really slowing my computer down and KDE 4.13 so far has been a drag all because of Baloo. When running BOINC, Baloo constantly wants to index everything BOINC writes to the disk which is frequent. Yes, I can exclude the BOINC directory, but there's no GUI option for a new user to shut off Baloo which is ridiculous, and it's even more ridiculous that the KDE dev who designed this piece of crap won't put in a feature to shut this piece of malware off. The next thing that's pissing me off is that when downloading torrents, Baloo goes completely nuts and sucks 25% of one core when the torrents are going and causes an extreme amount of disk I/O. How was this even released, because it's completely awful and I want it gone.
I haven't seen any disk I/O at all. I just checked the Desktop Search settings in "Configure Desktop" and all my drives were excluded. I allowed it to index my NAS drive and my home directory... and there was some serious activity on the NAS for about 10 minutes... I've not noticed anything different at all on my home.. even with torrents running. If BOINC is causing you issues with Baloo... isn't the "solution" then to exclude the BOINC directory? Or exclude everything in /home and Baloo has nothing to do? Some additional info I've dug up: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=154&t=120047#p304335 Which indicates: - To suspend: qdbus org.kde.baloo.file /indexer suspend - To resume: qdbus org.kde.baloo.file /indexer resume - To check that it is suspended:' qdbus org.kde.baloo.file /indexer isSuspended Over on the Kubuntu forums, they suggest editing this file: $HOME/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc and editing/adding this line Indexing-Enabled=false Personally.. I NEVER use indexed searches on my computer. It's a feature I don't need/want. Everything I have is sorted and I know where things are - I'm OCD that way. A desktop search is something I've tried.. and never saw the point in. I am a user who wants it disabled - not because of disk I/O, but that it's a wasted feature on me. C -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org