in 10.3, if i don’t monitor it closely i will end up with 20 or 30 beagled-helper processes. i don’t have the 100% cpu issues that others mention, but it does use memory and the system starts paging too frequently.
what is causing so many of them to be started? is there a cure other than to disable it?
Beagled-helper 100% CPU - NOVELL FORUMS
Updating it might help.
Personally, Beagle is one of the first things I uncheck when I’m installing Suse. I despise it. But that’s just personal opinion.
ewhite20 wrote:
Suse 11.1 x64, Kde 4.2beta, Opera 10.x weekly
What I do.
Un-intstall anything beagle during initial installation!!!
If not as soon as you get your first desktop!!!
from those that replied, it would seem beagle is not very popular. i don’t use it often, but i have found it occasionally better than find if i don’t remember enough of the file name.
that said, what is the issue with the growing helper procs? i read somewhere that it can choke on compressed tarballs, iso images, etc.; but now i can’t find that reference. is there a way to configure it better than the out-of-the-box settings? before i give up on it.
thanks.
The issue that I have with Beagle is related to my attitude toward desktops in general: if something helps me to do what I want, I’m all for it. If not, it’s a useless Eater Of Resources™ that needs to go away.
Beagle certainly qualifies as a UEOR 
It certainly needs to be removed as installed by default!
I don’t know why you guys are all being so tough on Beagle. I use the app all the time and find it very helpful for . . . whatever it does (???)
(Just Kidding!) lol!
whatever it does (???)
It’s that barking noise when the desktop starts up, I think.
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Glad I run Gnome so don’t have to add the plasmoid paperclip to go with
it…
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openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
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I know this is personal opinion, but I’ve never found desktop search useful. For me, having different folders for different purposes works better, without the resource waste of something like Beagle.
I also have nagging doubts about security. Is the database shared? Could someone else access info about my files and my searches?
Personal taste, personal opinion. But given that a Google search shows that a LOT of people want to uninstall Beagle, or disable it, I do agree that it shouldn’t be installed and enabled by default.
I would like to see Beagle developed so that when you boot to the desktop for the first time, an animated beagle comes on the screen, wags his tail, and then a large cartoon bubble appears that says “Hi! Welcome to OpenSuse! I’m here to help!”
Then he barks, wags his tail, runs to the lower right corner and is minimized into the taskbar.
Then every five minutes, he can come back and say “Hi, I’m the OpenSuse Beagle, I’m here to help you.” and wag his tail some more.
After all, Mirosoft has those talking paper clips, so OpenSuse should have something similarly annoying.
I agree with the others. Beagle is one of the first things I uninstall.
I’m not really sure why they keep making it default on the install. But it is easy to get rid of.
I think awhile back there was a question about removing beagle after install.
And pretty much the majority of users removed it.