OpenSUSE very very slow

Hi all, I’m running opensuse 11.1 on my old 256mb ram, 1 ghz vaio laptop. However, loading programs, starting KDE and even the boot process is extremely slow (about 3 min). I know that you might say that I don’t have a powerful machine… however, my laptop runs Fedora and Ubuntu with KDE fine. Is there anything that needs to be diabled or changed to make my system run faster? Any help would be appreciated… thanks.

I can’t help with the boot process, but you could after booting disable and remove beagle.

what exactly is beagle? thx again.

It does indexing of all your files.

I too would like to know if i should indeed remove beagle. Is it necessary.

To remove i think you just have to go is yast>software management search for beagle and click delete and apply

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A utility that searches your files and then lets you search them locally.
I think it may be considered similar to Google Desktop and its
functionality to search your box for you.

Good luck.

icanfly0307 wrote:
> what exactly is beagle? thx again.
>
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okay, i’ll try removing that and get back to you. thx.

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It’s fine to run without it as long as you don’t want its search features.

Good luck.

sabbyman wrote:
> It does indexing of all your files.
>
> I too would like to know if i should indeed remove beagle. Is it
> necessary.
>
> To remove i think you just have to go is yast>software management
> search for beagle and click delete and apply
>
>
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Not sure about the boot process either, but you probably also want to make sure Desktop Effects are disabled.