Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:24 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
When a 10.3 system is installed, by default some things are set up that
will result in a daemon or some other agent occasionally waking up and
getting very busy. These activities can impact other running
applications. I am hoping to make a list of these so that I can (1)
decide if I need them and (2) figure out how to disable them. With full
understanding that I live with whatever mess I create. My use for this
is in a measurement system that probably does not need whatever these
applications are doing. It definitely does not want the system
sluggishness they sometimes create.
So, here is a start at my list:
opensuseupdater
updatedb
Roger,
It is pretty simple. Just right-click opensuseupdater in the sys tray,
choose quit and then click "do not start on login" (or something
similar). This will disable online update from running every time you
login and stop the automaitc refresh of all repositories.
This is no big deal, I run that way. Just remember you must manually do
the yast->online update once in a while.
Depending on whether you use Beagle search index, you will also want to
either (1) disable Beagle in control center, or (2) remove it completely
with "rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep beagle) kerry" from the command line as root.
After making those two modifications, you will not experience any more
slowdown during the first 5-10 minutes after login. Online update and
beagle are the problems.
I am glad this is make accessible so easily; however, I need to make
this part of my software installation. I cannot trust that the system
operators will do this. I am hearing reports of other processes that
start much later after login that are causing delays. I do not have
complete information. Could also be a failing disk or a bad network
connection.
For online update the solution is to configure yast->software->configure
online update. You can set online update to run weekly/monthly, etc.
That way you can still stay current on updates without it running on
every login.
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