[solved] Problems with nepomuk, huge lag

[Guest]

I didn't even know that such a service exist before upgrade. But then I upgraded and the whole system seemed to be very laggy. I couldn't even scroll my text documents nor web pages properly. Then I noticed that there are 6 nepomukservice processes and one of them used over 400MB memory. I killed all of them and the nepomukserver and then my system started to work many times faster!

So the question is, do I need the nepomukserver? And why it is so damn slow?

[Snowhog]

Re: Problems with nepomuk, huge lag

Do you need it? No. When it starts for the first time, it indexes your users /home directory to build it's database. If you have a lot of files in your users /home directory, this can (initially) take some time. Once the database index is built, then Nepomuk/Strigi actually doesn't impact the normal running of your system.

[Guest]

Re: Problems with nepomuk, huge lag

Thanks! Now I know something what it does and it seems that it's not slowing the system anymore. Probably the indexing had some issues.

[kyonides]

Re: [solved] Problems with nepomuk, huge lag

If for some reason that happens once again, you can disable several of its features by going to System Settings > Advanced > Desktop Search > Basic Settings and unchecking Enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop.