Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Dale wrote:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Thursday 11 February 2010 13:50:54 Walter Dnes wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:31:26AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
> >>>
> >>>> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote:
> >>>>> IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find another
> >>>>> desktop manager (even after being my primary desktop for 7 years).
> >>>>
> >>>> yeah good luck with that. Because gnome is moving in that direction
> >>>> too.
> >>>>
> >>>    There are other desktops besides GNOME and KDE.  Actually I prefer
> >>>    the
> >>>
> >>> ICEWM window manager.  I was running a 1999 Dell 450mhz PIII with 128
> >>> megs of *SYSTEM* ram until the summer of 2007.  Let's just say that
> >>> GNOME and KDE were out of the question for me.  On my current desktop,
> >>> ICEWM flies.  But I also have a netbook, and again GNOME and KDE are
> >>> not usable.
> >>>
> >>>> Seriously guys, you start sounding like luddites. Is new, must be bad.
> >>>>
> >>>    Correction, is fat, bloated, and slow, must be bad.  I wonder if
> >>>
> >>> Microsoft's anti-linux strategy is to have its agents infiltrate the
> >>> linux developer community, and turn linux into bloatware.
> >>
> >> You have been corrected on this point so many times I now think you are
> >> just a stupid ass.
> >>
> >> It is not slow.
> >>
> >> You are the only one saying that. People who do use Nepomuk say that it
> >> is not slow and does not hog resources (initial scan excepted).
> >
> > you can even tell nepomuk how much memory it is allowed to use ...
>
> Can you nice the thing too?  That would work.  I set emerge to 5 and I
> can't even tell that emerge is running most of the time.  There may be
> times when I can but it is rare.
>
> I just don't get this thing that indexing is a resource hog.  I notice
> updatedb running at night.  I have 329Gbs of "data" and updatedb only
> takes a few minutes.  How is that a resource "hog"?  My machine is not
> as old as some but it is slow going by the new machines that are out
> now.  It's a AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram.  I have had Linux on machines
> as slow as 133MHz but never felt the need to disable indexing.
>

when updatedb runs your cache is shot afterwards. That is a known problems.

Nepomuk is only noticable once: the first indexing run. After that it creates 
zero load.