wat beagled-helper doing?

[neusun001]

i see my laptop fan running continuously and processor at 100%.. I check the 'gnome system monitor' it says, beagled-helper using 90% of processor.. while status shows 'sleeping'.
wat is it doing? can i totally remove this beagle safely?

I'm using suse linux 10.2 with gnome 2.16.

awaiting for your replies.. thanks in adavance.

[Juan Pablo]

Beagle is indexing your file system to give you search results quickly, it's quite fast while indexing but if you are running a laptop in battery it's very incovenient.

Then answers is up to you, do you use Beagle?

[neusun001]

thanks for a prompt reply..

no i do not use beagle.. but then, if i try to remove it.. its giving a hell lot list of dependencies.. i dont want the entire desktop to go unstable.. but would it?

[Juan Pablo]

Can you post the list of dependencies in order what is there? I think you can also just disable the Beagle daemon

[gogalthorp]

There are some serious dependencies on beagle. Several major programs use it like amarok. If you try to remove it there are many programs slotted for removal. What would be nice is an easy way to schedule the indexing or even turn it off. The index is schedualed with a bunch of other things in the root's kron. No it is not listed, it is controled by files in a special directory. (forgot which at the moment)

The time this happens seems dependent somewhat on the time of the last reboot. I've never figures out how to change the time to a regular scheduled time since this is happening outside of krons normal interface.

[bigtomrodney]

You can stop the indexing by disabling it in the Gnome system session properties applet or removing it from KDE startup.

If you are having problems with Beagle running high on CPU it might mean that either you are still building up your initial indexes or your metadata is corrupt. You can try simply renaming your .beagle directory and allowing it to start over. This may reduce the CPU usage when the index is back in order.

[neusun001]

thanks a lot for your replies..
perhaps beagle is building initial indexes, cos i recently installed suse 10.2.
i'll try to disable it.