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.
Beagle is a very touchy subject here. Some people swear by it and love it and others only swear at it and hate it. Beagle, under normal circumstances, should index everything you tell it to in the config, and it is supposed to do this while your computer is idle. Some people find it works perfectly as designed and others state that it consumes up to 100% CPU and stays there (generally this is reported on the older builds, and it is not as much of a problem on the 0.3.x builds). The general advice is.. if you like, use, and want Beagle, then make sure you update it to the latest build... for example from here where you can get 0.3.2 (as of when I checked) which is a lot newer than the version released with 10.3: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jproseve/openSUSE_10.3 (add to repos or use the 1Click thing on the opensuse.org web pages) You should also then open the Beagle config and explicitly tell it what to index and what not to index. The other advice you will get is simply to remove all traces of Beagle. The choice is yours. 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. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org