On Wednesday 28 March 2007 01:26:47 pm Joe Shaw wrote:
Hi Michael,
On 3/28/07, Michael Letourneau <michaell@theletourneaus.net> wrote:
I know many (most?) dislike beagle and turn it off, but I actually have a need to use it right now, and thought it would be a good solution to finding some information I have mis-placed.
I'm the main developer of Beagle, so I'm certainly interested to know why people turn it off. Is it a lack of necessity, is it a failure in user experience, is it misbehaving in some way (including CPU pegging or memory hogging)? This is all useful information to me, and I want to fix any bugs people come across.
My experiences echo that of others on this list who have already posted. On new systems, with beagle turned on, response time becomes erratic or simply slow. These are very noticeable and become quickly annoying to me. Not really needing Bob - or beagle - or whatever the name is, I simply euthanize it. (Sorry, it is difficult not to poke fun at beagle.) As a rule, I turn beagle off immediately after install. (I have not done a 10.2 install yet, because without beagle and zmd running, 10.1 is perfectly stable for me and family.) I noticed that a few others mentioned the possibility of zmd being part of the cause. That may be - I tend to remove zmd as soon as possible as well after install, because I find it slow and tedious as well. So, basically, a system not running beagle or bob runs faster and is more responsive overall than one running beagle. I've found this on four separate systems, all fairly modern systems with at least 1G RAM and either Athlon or Pentium 4 processors. Thanks for listening! -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com closing the doors that surround me so no one will ever penetrate complete my retreat just to wait for the day that never comes so i will laugh alone -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org