Does your Nepomuk reindex constantly, too?

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Sujao · Post by **Sujao** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:03 am

I have the current stable release of KDE 4.3 and every time I login nepomuk the semantic desktop search reindexes a lot of files in my home folder and some in another? Is this normal behavior? Those files weren't changed 100%.

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:11 am

I observed this too, and nepomuk uses an awful lot RAM (and CPU) for just storage. (I had the same problem with kde-4.2)

This is one of the reason, why I stopped using it (the other being, that I have never really used it)

Sujao · Post by **Sujao** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:38 pm

I deactivated it just now, too. Not only because of the reindexing but also because it doesn't find files that are there and thus is useless.

vincent- · Post by **vincent-** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:49 pm

I have dissabled it the first week using KDE xD

Xytovl · Post by **Xytovl** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:21 pm

On the current stable KDE (4.3.3) there is a big problem with the storage backend. If you have hs_err files appearing in your home then it is sesame (a java backend) that is crashing, on my computer it started working by setting a user java-vm (with eselect as normal user) but there were crashes later. I am now on KDE4.4 beta, nepomuk works much better (virtuoso backend) but everything else is beta quality.
I think you should juste remove it for now and wait for KDE4.4

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14 pm

Mine didn't seem to do this in KDE 4.3 but now that I have updated to KDE 4.4 it is constantly indexing. Now I also have some process called virtuoso-t taking up 75-90% cpu constantly. I don't understand this desktop search indexing fad, specially when it hogs your processor as much as it does.

albright · Post by **albright** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:30 pm

I don't understand this desktop search indexing fad, specially when it hogs your processor as much as it does.

While I agree with everybody that nepomuk/strigi/virtuoso is crap, I've
used spotlight in OS X and it works like a dream and is very useful.

Are the mac coders that much better or what?

blscreen · Post by **blscreen** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:43 am

I have recompiled strigi with inotify support, and I think the problem with re-indexing got better (though I'm not sure). I agree that there is still much to improve with strigi/nepomuk.

Delian · Post by **Delian** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:08 am

blscreen wrote:I have recompiled strigi with inotify support, and I think the problem with re-indexing got better (though I'm not sure). I agree that there is still much to improve with strigi/nepomuk.

I have strigi with inotify support too.. the re-indexing problem is still here and virtuoso is still using a lot of cpu

Alejandro Nova · Post by **Alejandro Nova** » Thu May 13, 2010 6:36 pm

AFAIK there's no real support for inotify inside Nepomuk+Soprano+Strigi, and there won't be any until KDE 4.5. Saw that in their feature plan set. So the advice given by KDE developers themselves: disable Strigi, keep Nepomuk, and see what happens. They say that Nepomuk do a lot more things than indexing (rating and metatagging files), and all that goodness works just fine without Strigi.