On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:23, Will Stephenson wrote:
* Strigi is activated by default, and we disabled it in 11.3 to placate the angry brigade. Leave it off and keep Nepomuk enabled?
Strigi/Nepomuk is working fine on a desktop (I've finally started using it, and it's not disruptive at all anymore), but it's one of those items that really kills performance while it's doing its initial indexing. This is a feature I'd definitely vote to have turned off on the LiveCD. There is no real benefit to it being switched on, on a LiveCD.... at least none i can think of.
I admit that I didn't test it with a cdrom - I only dd'ed it to a usb stick and booted in VMs, and didn't actually notice any performance hit while the initial 1 minute index took place.
I felt it was important to have all the upstream features enabled on the KDE Four Live image as it's an upstream showcase. For openSUSE KDE Reloaded, I think Strigi should be an opt-in as it was in 11.3 I think Nepomuk should be enabled as more features in 4.5 depend on it than in 4.4. Without Strigi or KDE PIM 4.5 beta (which is still facing some performance bugs), it consumes memory but not appreciable amounts of CPU.
When I enabled Strigi/Nepomuk on my desktop (dual core CPU, 8GB RAM, SATA2 HDs)... it really killed the system until it was done the initial indexing... I mean.. I walked away and let it finish things got that busy on the HDs. Once that was done though (took 6 or 7 minutes), it's not a problem at all. With a LiveCD, the indexing - if there is any - would be triggered on every boot wouldn't it? I'm thinking CDROM here... not writable USB. If it is trigged on boot... then we would be showing a significant performance hit every time someone booted the CD... or am I wrong here? Or.. could it be pre-configured to index only.. say.. $USER/Desktop and $USER/Documents. They are essentially empty anyway on a LiveCD, and the indexing is minimal... thus no performance penalty. It would be interesting to a real world test of the LiveCD with this enabled (not a VM test)... I'll see if I can give it a try tonight. I think I've got one or two blank CDs left.... maybe. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org