After the revise to 14.04 Kubuntu I do observe an executable working constantly making use of up to 95% of my CPU period that I experienced never noticed before. The executable wasbaloofile. Not understanding anything about it, I found out on thé internets thát this is the fresh file indexer coming with KDE 4.13 which is usually replacing nepomuk. Very first issue I disabled in old KDE installations was nepomuk. I found it not helpful, a reference hog slowing down my program to a get, and a generator of gigabytes of list documents clogging my tough drive. Simply because clever as indexing for better and quicker queries might end up being, I in no way make use of it anyhow, so I wear't would like it. In KDE produces lt; 4.13 you could switch Nepomuk simply off in the System Configurations.
Expected to the KDE designers you cannot turn off baloo at aIl. You can suspend it (occurs on low battery power for notebooks.), but the suspend command word I found failed on my system with an error:
Them KDE devs recommend to include your $House website directory to the listing of web directories not becoming listed by baloo. I test that and added/house/and my$Houselisting to the checklist of directories not getting indexed. Sadly it would not really quit the darn thing. After only one time with KDE 4.13 I experienced accumulated 1.8 Gigabyte of index documents in /.nearby/share/baloo.
Therefore here is what I did to obtain rid of it:
1. removed all material in /.local/share/baloo
2. produced the directory unwritable for anyoné:
3. You can most likely stop right now there, but might finish up with crashed executables. So for good measure I produced a little software in my $House/bin directory site which I made executable and do add it to the list of scripts executed on KDE startup:
#!/trash can/bash
kiIlall -9 baloofilecleaner
killall -9 baloofile
killall -9 baloofileextr
rm -rf /.regional/share/baloo/.
Therefore much no baloo services and no data files in /.nearby/share/baloo.
Cheers
M
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