More on 8.04.1 buggy

[Bruce Bales]

On Friday 25 July 2008 10:47:58 Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> While answering one of the comments on my previous complaint the disc
> thrashing started again.  I had been on the machine for about an hour prior
> to this event.  Again, per suggestion, I tried 'top' but could not figure
> out what was happening.  Then a popup message occurred indicating that I
> was running out of memory.  Because I wanted to get my email our I quickly
> sent it an then did a shutdown.
>
> After rebooting I did a df which showed:
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6            152132292 136379128   8086148  95% /
> varrun                 1030896       156   1030740   1% /var/run
> varlock                1030896         0   1030896   0% /var/lock
> udev                   1030896        64   1030832   1% /dev
> devshm                 1030896         0   1030896   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                    1030896     45040    985856
> 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
>
> and indeed I was running out of memory.  I then did a du of my home user
> directory and the follwing extract:
> 129128672       ./.strigi/clucene
> 4       ./.strigi/estraier
> 129128688       ./.strigi
> !!!
>
> I did a '/bin/rm -r .strigi' and disc usage is back to around 6%.
>

I did a 'locate strigi |wc' and it finds 68 instances.  I had never heard of 
it and don't think I want it.  Is rm the good way to get rid of it or 
would 'sudo apt-get remove strigi'  do a more thorough job?

bruce