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

Sun Jan 29 21:46:54 CET 2012

Am 29.01.2012 19:16, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> Op zondag 29 januari 2012 19:00:41 schreef Balcaen John:
+>> 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,
+> required by kmail?
+>
+> i use kmail...
+>
+> if this is somekind of desktop search stuff, i'd like to disable it while still 
+> having kmail working...
+Did you read me reply? See above.
+