And just for your general information, with Beagle installed, SuSE was using 1.5Gig of Memory and 256Meg of Swap.
After removing Beagle and a reboot, I have 887Meg free and no swap used, I would think that Beagle qualifies as a HOG. I don't care what it offers as an advantage, it isn't worth that, (I have about 2 Gigs of EMail it was indexing) Gary B Joe Sloan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 December 2007 05:56:05 pm Joe Sloan wrote: >> >>> David C. Rankin wrote: >>> >>>> rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep beagle) >>>> >>>> works nicely >>>> >>> It looks good, but it won't remove beagle because kerry needs it. >>> >>> But in general I agree with your elegant approach. >>> >>> Joe >>> >> You can safely remove kerry and anything beagle. >> > > > Right, and I always remove kerry - I was just pointing out a flaw in the > one-liner provided earlier as an example. > > > >> and make some noise about it, perhaps it can attract the attention of >> developers that develop bloated software. >> >> In my mind it is really sad that anything not related to gaming or heavy >> duty >> engineering simulations abuses hardware thousands of times harder than it >> could or should... >> it used to be that open source software was a lean and mean fighting >> machine, >> now the typical linucs install is about 2-3x that of an xp partition, don't >> know anything about vista. and running the proggies often brings up >> situations like beagle or a software update, much better than 10.2 but still >> awful timewise, on dual core or even quad core cpus with oodles of ram!!!!! >> > > Well it still can be very lean and mean, but if you install suse, you > have to do some work to get it that way. > > Joe > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
