Rajko M. wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007 20:39, dwain wrote: > >> David Brodbeck wrote: >> >>> Rajko M. wrote: >>> >>>> Beagle is not alone, the update of manpages is also tax on computer.. >>>> >>> Not to mention ZMD. I thought I was going to have to turn off beagle, >>> but once I removed ZMD my system stopped becoming unresponsive and I no >>> longer felt the need to disable beagle. I've never had beagle make my >>> system unusable but ZMD used to do it all the time. It was tempting to >>> blame beagle because beagle indexing and ZMD updates were often running >>> at the same time, and the combination of the two is a real killer. >>> >> As a new user, what is ZMD and is it necessary for system functionality? >> > > Dwain, > > It is: > http://en.opensuse.org/Zmd > > and it is not necessary, since YaST is doing for years all that zmd should do > for individual user, but without hogging resources on smaller machines, ie. > without problems :-) > > Install opensuseupdater if you want notifications about security updates. > I wanted. > > Than remove zmd, zen-updater, zen-installer, zen-remover and rug. > > thanks for all of the advise. i removed a lot of unwanted programs and it seemed that with the dependencies stripped the system bare. i haven't rebooted yet, but i'll find out what's what here shortly. gotta reboot. cross your fingers.
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