As the title suggest I disabled Nepmuk and Strigi.(may not be spelled right) I haven't seen an issue yet but need to know if I have a big issue coming.

I kept having an "indexing suspended" error popping up and temporarily locking up Firefox/Seamonkey. Also I am playing an online game that was acting quirky until I turned them off.

Thanks for any and all insight.
Ace

I would also consider installing openbox as well and then run kde/openbox session from kdm. This will further speed up KDE 4.2.4 or upgrade to current, or install vbatts KDE 4.3.1 packages. I never had any problems disabling the two programs you mention.

samac

You can also configure the KDE notification daemon to stop showing strigi/nepomuk messages. No need to disable this service entirely.

Eric

I disabled both services as well with no problems. Since I don't use/need them why have them loaded into memory? KDE also stabilized a bit without them. Anyway, KDE4 so far is not to my liking so for now I just switched to Xfce.

Thanks, So far I haven't had any issues though I might follow Alien Bob's suggestion.

I'm also using XFCE, but with either XFCE or KDE, I have disabled both services from square one, without any ill effects.

Disabling them using Slack 13's stock XFCE installation is tricky, because there're some bugs with the "Service Disable/Enable" dialog system, which can be overcome if you frig with it enough (the names or descriptions of the entry you are looking at, are blank, until you check/uncheck them a few times just the right way).

I tried un-installing nepomuk/strigi completely, but then Konqueror won't run. Unfortunately for me, I'm still rather dependant on Konqueror as my preferred X file browser.

Sasha

I ended up removing all packages in /kde and all package relying on it and happily so

I liked konqueror as a swiss army knife but gftp + worker fulfill my needs.

Amarok is nice too but I have Audacious + VLC.

And I use Fluxbox.

<thought>Am I reasonable triggering a new applications/desktops/WMs war on last day of the year?</thought>

Happy new year to all of you.

Linux Format did a review/test of several desktop search thingies, and Strigi came bottom with a score of 1/10.

Many times I tried to get nepomuk/strigi working and tried very hard to get used to it.
I always end up disabling it, partially 'cause I don't find a use for it but mainly because I don't like a service using 30% of my Dual Core Turion64 processor (I know, it is not a top one but 90%+ of the time it is working at its lowest frequency, 800MHz) even when doing nothing. I mean, the Strigi indexing was finished, which is supposed to be the most cpu/disk intensive task, and still the nepomuk service was eating my CPU and using 200+MB of RAM.

I also found it unstable, with some of it configuration screens freezing for a few minutes some times

I sincerely hope it is better in new versions of KDE, I kind of like the whole 'semantic desktop' idea. Specially 'cause I have like 8GB of family photos & videos. But for now I think I'll stay with some content management system like ResourceSpace