Nepomonk freezing browser

[O. Sinclair]

On 19/05/12 13:53, cherryfinals wrote:
> I did my usual hard drive replacement and virgin install of Kubuntu from
> a CD shortly after it was released. Since then, I've been mostly happy
> with it.
>
> The one problem that has bugged me is the fact that Nepomuk spends a lot
> of time indexing and when it does, I can see the CPU usage on my
> four-core AMD running at 60% to 100% and when I try to browse to a new
> page in Firefox, it sometimes take ten minutes or more.
>
> If I pause indexing, everything appears to work properly.
>
> I have seen a bunch of discussions on Nepomuk over the last year or so,
> but haven't seen an explanation as to what the heck it is supposed to do
> for us and if it is a critical item, why hasn't it been fixed in all
> this time?
>
> I don't mind pausing it once in a while, but hesitate to go through all
> the BS involved in totally killing it off my system.
>

You can simply switch off Desktop Search in System Settings and the CPU 
will quiet down. But what I did was to increase allowed memory usage 
(advanced tab in Desktop Search settings) to 350 Mb and since then my 
problems have been very few.

Sinclair