Re: [opensuse] Beagle waste Sudhir wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 23:15 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Carl Spitzer wrote:
>>> Seems in addition to wasting CPU resources its a drive hog.
>>> So I put in a warning line in dot bashrc
>>>
>>>  du ./.beagle/ -ch | tail
>>>
>>> so each time i open a konsole I get a read on how much waste.
>>>
>>> Perhaps if it were redeveloped not as a daeman but as a stand alone we
>>> could control with cron it would be more useful.
>>>
>> 	This is absolutely ridiculous. That's nearly 20% of the / partition 
>> wasted on the dreaded_dog.
>>
>> 835M    ./.beagle/
>> 835M    total
>> 23:11 Rankin-P35a~>
>>
>> 	This will fix it
>>
>> sudo rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep beagle) kerry && rm -r ~/.beagle
> 
> 
> This begs the question if anyone finds beagle useful and actually uses
> it.  I have found that the hard disk shows a lot of activity when beagle
> runs.
> 
> I either remove it when installing or first thing post install.
> 
> Could fellow list members indicate if they find beagle useful or not?
> 

Since i name my directories and files for the contents
contained within them... I do not.

People who have a home directory full of file names like:
"paper4" and "homeworkabc" probably need beagle.

> Regards.
> 
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