Gusty is slow!

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 16:01 +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:
>> Maybe as well a problem of way too many background processes up and
>> running? I have found gutsy to feel way more performant after dumping
>> tracker, network-manager, update-notifier and a bunch of other things.
>> Surely all these applications actually do mean something and are of
>> good use if you want this sort of features, but they also (especially
>> tracker) notably seem to slow things down...
> 
> Understandable, though one would wonder why you use Ubuntu in the first
> place ...

I begin to wonder.  I use it because it has a better release cycle than
Debian, but I've never been happy with its choices of applications that I
just _have_ to have running.  I load my machine up enough without silly
stuff like tracker and beryl.

> Regarding Tracker: note that it actually slows down things only very
> rarely, A few minutes after booting and when you create new files that
> it needs to index. On my machine, it uses practically zero resources
> practically all the time.

updatedb once a day was always good enough for me...

As for network manager - for a fixed desktop machine, it really is serious
overkill.  Laptops need something like NM (I use it/I like it), but it
should be a laptop option.
-- 
derek