nepomuk

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 03:20:51 pm D. R. Evans wrote:
> Clay Weber said the following at 06/16/2010 11:37 AM :
> > If you rely a LOT on desktop search, tagging files and 
folders/pictures,
> > then nepomuk is quite good, but it can take a fair bit to index
> > everything initially. It does shut off automatically if resources are
> > too low. But searches are quite fast.
> 
> How long is it likely to keep running following an upgrade? (Yeah, silly
> question because it probably depends on all kinds of imponderables, 
but
> what have other users experienced?)
> 
> I seem to recall that it ran for a couple of hours when I moved to 
karmic.
> I upgraded to lucid two days ago, and all four cores are pretty solidly 
in
> use still, and the disk light is still on almost continuously. The (lack
> of) responsiveness of the desktop is truly abysmal, so I'm wondering 
how
> much longer this is likely to go on.
> 
> I don't like to remove something that KDE seems to expect to be 
running,
> but when it takes 30 seconds just to start a program because the 
system is
> so bogged down, that seems to me have passed the bounds of 
reasonable
> behaviour, so if this is likely to continue much longer, I guess I'll be
> switching off nepomuk, even though I very much like the idea of a 
desktop
> search that actually works.
> 
>   Doc


Don't remove it, just shut it off. You won't loose any functionality really, 
unless you use desktop searches (which include file *contents* as well), 
regular searches fork fine without it.

you can also tell it which folders to index, usually it is set to index your 
entire /home folder, which could include email, photos, docs, music, etc.

I don't know how long it takes to finish as it depends on how much it 
has to index. On my old laptop it doesn't have much to index, but it 
does slow things down so I usually turn it off. Even so, it never ran 
constantly after the first run, however. It does bog my 2.0 pentium 4 
and 1gb ram down once in a while, though. I have not looked at how 
much it sucks up , though.

I have a fresh install here, so i will see how it goes 

Clay