[Mageia-dev] virtuoso-t (nepomuk?) takes too much memory (and CPU)

Sun Jan 29 19:00:41 CET 2012

On Sunday 29 January 2012 18:45:18 Maarten Vanraes wrote :
+> Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 18:56:35 schreef Florian Hubold:
+> > Am 28.01.2012 09:48, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> [...]
+> 
+> > > what does it actually do? is this even needed? and why is it leaking so
+> > > much memory?
+> > 
+> > It's the database backend for Nepomuk, and i assume that it does the
+> > initial indexing of your /home. It does not leak memory, and it's not
+> > really needed,
+> > you might want to disable Nepomuk/Strigi altogether.
+> > 
+> > You might want to look at
+> > http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/virtuoso-once-more-with-feeling/
+> > for some context information and
+> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246678 or
+> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281653 for bug information.
+> 
+> [...]
+> 
+> > > just wondering if there's a good reason for this?
+> 
+> well, i was thinking if it's here by default, there must be a good reason...
+> 
+> but imho it takes way too much resources.
+Nepomuk (& so virtuoso) is only required by a few packages (like kmail or 
+bangarang for example), so you can of course remove/disable it if you don't 
+want to use it.
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
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