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

Balcaen John mikala at mageia.org
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
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