On Friday 06 June 2008 10:54:50 Evans Garde wrote:
Clayton wrote:
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.
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Personally, I am one who had the 100% CPU use problems. I found that after upgrading to 0.3.x, and then severely limiting what Beagle was allowed to index (limiting it to a single directory with only a few files), I could get it "under control", and it was... reasonably silent in the background. In the end I removed it. It provided nothing I needed, and the resource consumption... even on an AMD6400+ with 4GB of RAM... was more than I was willing to allow it to have.
I've got 6 GB of RAM on this machine, and...gave beagle another chance.
It didn't take too long to banish it back to the doghouse...
What does this thing do, bubblesort in an interpreted-at-execution-time language?
C.
I stuck with it for several days without the machine being turned off listening to my drive clunking all of the time. I didn't notice any problems with cpu utilisation or memory but disc access times went up to the point where they were completely un acceptable. This may have been down to every thing being swapped out of memory. When I searched for something I was amazed to see web pages and all sorts of things come up. I think beagle should throw up a splash screen telling people what it can do and wait for them to set it up as the user wants. As I Ieft it running for so long and it didn't stop clunking I assume that it doesn't build and then maintain an index but continuously looks for changes. That' s not on so I simpley disabled it from the icon. No problems since. There is an option to not enable it at start up available from the icon. John 10.3 86_64bit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org