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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:49:53
Message-Id: 201002120127.16984.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail? by Dale
1 On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Dale wrote:
2 > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
3 > > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Dale wrote:
4 > >> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
5 > >>> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
6 > >>>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 13:50:54 Walter Dnes wrote:
7 > >>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:31:26AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
8 > >>>>>
9 > >>>>>> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote:
10 > >>>>>>> IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find
11 > >>>>>>> another desktop manager (even after being my primary desktop for 7
12 > >>>>>>> years).
13 > >>>>>>
14 > >>>>>> yeah good luck with that. Because gnome is moving in that direction
15 > >>>>>> too.
16 > >>>>>>
17 > >>>>> There are other desktops besides GNOME and KDE. Actually I
18 > >>>>> prefer the
19 > >>>>>
20 > >>>>> ICEWM window manager. I was running a 1999 Dell 450mhz PIII with 128
21 > >>>>> megs of *SYSTEM* ram until the summer of 2007. Let's just say that
22 > >>>>> GNOME and KDE were out of the question for me. On my current
23 > >>>>> desktop, ICEWM flies. But I also have a netbook, and again GNOME
24 > >>>>> and KDE are not usable.
25 > >>>>>
26 > >>>>>> Seriously guys, you start sounding like luddites. Is new, must be
27 > >>>>>> bad.
28 > >>>>>>
29 > >>>>> Correction, is fat, bloated, and slow, must be bad. I wonder if
30 > >>>>>
31 > >>>>> Microsoft's anti-linux strategy is to have its agents infiltrate the
32 > >>>>> linux developer community, and turn linux into bloatware.
33 > >>>>
34 > >>>> You have been corrected on this point so many times I now think you
35 > >>>> are just a stupid ass.
36 > >>>>
37 > >>>> It is not slow.
38 > >>>>
39 > >>>> You are the only one saying that. People who do use Nepomuk say that
40 > >>>> it is not slow and does not hog resources (initial scan excepted).
41 > >>>
42 > >>> you can even tell nepomuk how much memory it is allowed to use ...
43 > >>
44 > >> Can you nice the thing too? That would work. I set emerge to 5 and I
45 > >> can't even tell that emerge is running most of the time. There may be
46 > >> times when I can but it is rare.
47 > >>
48 > >> I just don't get this thing that indexing is a resource hog. I notice
49 > >> updatedb running at night. I have 329Gbs of "data" and updatedb only
50 > >> takes a few minutes. How is that a resource "hog"? My machine is not
51 > >> as old as some but it is slow going by the new machines that are out
52 > >> now. It's a AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram. I have had Linux on machines
53 > >> as slow as 133MHz but never felt the need to disable indexing.
54 > >
55 > > when updatedb runs your cache is shot afterwards. That is a known
56 > > problems.
57 > >
58 > > Nepomuk is only noticable once: the first indexing run. After that it
59 > > creates zero load.
60 >
61 > So cache is bad? Heck, my cache is almost always full anyway. Nothing
62 > new there. If it is not updatedb then it will be something else.
63
64 no, cahce is great. That is the problem. Updatedb replaces the cached files
65 with stuff you probably don't care about. Which is bad.

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