On Thu November 29 2007 14:12:05 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I sometimes find when my laptop becomes very slow > and I run "top" to see what is happening > that the culprit is "beagled-helper". > > I don't recall ever starting beagled, > and it does not seem to be listed by chkconfig. > > Is it now a standard part of Fedora? > Is it mandatory to run it? > What exactly does it do? > > "man beagled" says it is "a system for searching > and managing your personal information space", > which I don't find very informative, or convincing. Remove it if you value your cpu cycles its a resource hog, I'd also ditch the mono-core it sits on too and all its dependants YMMV. So to answer your question no. ...dex