Bug 130476

Summary: Documentation About Disabling beagle
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Karl Eichwalder <ke>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Jakub Friedl <jfriedl>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Karl Eichwalder <ke>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: landemaine
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: SUSE Linux 10.1   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description Karl Eichwalder 2005-10-25 14:24:24 UTC 
We need better documentation about disabling beagle.  In the manpage I found:

The Beagle daemon should normally  be started as part of your system's boot process: For example, by an initscript.

But how does it work on SUSE Linux?  The manual does not seem to address this very issue neither.  The background is, webbrowsing with Firefox is rather slow on my PII400 machine at home and I want to check whether that's beagle related.
Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2005-10-25 15:46:47 UTC 
gnome-session starts in.  In the gnome control center there is a search and indexing capplet to turn it off.  You can also touch .dontrunbeagle in your home dir.

As a side note - you can disable the beagle extension in firefox and that will turn off indexing of the webpages you view.
Comment 2 Karl Eichwalder 2005-10-25 19:08:36 UTC 
Thanks - I will add this info to the manual.

For the moment I removed beagle-index-url and webbrowsing with Firefox is fast again.  Where can I disable beagle in firefox properly, please?  "Tools"->"Extensions", then "Beagle Indexer"->"Options" does not seem to offer an appropriate button.  Is it in "about:config"?
Comment 3 Karl Eichwalder 2005-11-17 17:51:43 UTC 
Jana, please evaluate the bug and assign to our Gnome writer if appropriate.
Comment 4 Jana Jaeger 2005-11-21 09:11:51 UTC 
reassigning to Elizabeth
Comment 5 Bryce Nesbitt 2006-02-13 20:37:48 UTC 
I agree: I learned I was running beagle when I noticed it's HUGE impact on my backup set size.

The beagle GUI hangs on all searches other than 'chat', for me.
And typing "best" from the command line gives a useless result.
'ps' shows beagle under a name other than beagle.

So I want to be rid of Beagle.  I think it should be off by default.
Comment 7 Charles LLandemaine 2007-11-12 14:41:42 UTC 
I have to agree here. My computer is very slow with Beagle enabled. I was searching ways to make my computer more responsive until I found out it was caused by Beagle. I personally have no use whatsoever of Beagle. I don't know about other people, I'm not sure many people use such a search feature. However there's a fair amount of people who use Linux because it's supposed to be light-weight and a good candidate for low-end computers (in my case). Windows XP that I run on a 2nd partition is actually slightly faster than openSUSE and a lot faster than openSUSE with Beagle enabled. A good tradeoff would be to have Beagle installed by default but disabled. People who need it AND have a high-end computer could enable it at any time. Or don't include Beagle at all by default.
Comment 8 Karl Eichwalder 2007-11-12 15:02:25 UTC 
Trying to sort it out myself.

Please note, on openSUSE 10.3 beagle behave quite nice ;)  It is very active on my PII 400MHz test system at home, but thus far it did not block the machine.  I personally believe that a global desktop search is very useful.
Comment 9 Karl Eichwalder 2008-10-13 12:31:48 UTC 
Jakub, maybe you could add a note to the beagle docs.
Comment 10 Jakub Friedl 2009-02-11 15:25:51 UTC 
fixed