Hey all,

I recently got the latest release of Kubuntu (10.04) downloaded on my laptop after about a year of not using the box at all, and it seems to be incredibly slow, especially when the Internet is involved. top command shows a process called virtuoso-t eating all my RAM and CPU. What is it? And assuming that it is not necessary, could someone explain to me how to do away with it?

EDIT; some googling says that it is related to the indexing process in the desktop search function. Does this mean that this heavy CPU usage is a one time thing, and that after it finished indexing it will retreat to the background?


And a further edit: disabling the desktop search function got rid of it, and the laptop is back to its usual performance level.

I would still like to hear if anyone else had this issue and if it went away after the function finished indexing the filesystem.

nepomukserver with KDE seems to be related. I don't run KDE and debian doesn't seem to have nepomuk package(s). Although kdelibs5 seem to have some of that. Some mention of giving it less girth.

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=154&t=85951

You probably don't need it IMO. locate / which / find / other options to find things on the fly. No real need to index ones desktop, much less hog massive amounts of resources in doing so.

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Yeah, I just disabled it completely and everything works fine - it must be a new feature of 10.04 because I never had that problem before upgrading.

No need for desktop search if you keep a good filing system of your own anyway.