I read on the forums that disabling the default media players media scanning daemon (wow mouthfull) coupld improve device performance (and i dont see a need for the daemon, but thats probably just because i dont know what it does)

But I have been unable to find out how to disable it.

I tried the forum search but couldnt find anything

/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 stop


Then move /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0

mv /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0-disabled

Thanks for that!

Is there any reason not to disable it? From what I can tell it is just indexing my media files for the media player, seems a bit of an overkill method however.

Yeah, it's just indexing your media files for the built-in media player. If you don't use the built-in media player, disable it. If you do use the built-in media player, but don't put new media files on often, disable it and run it when there's something new.

But I think a more elegant technique for disabling it is:
This is a standard sysv rc setup, so that command just disables that service in runlevel 2. (Which is the default runlevel.)

@benson,

to be more accurate, changing the filename to the K, from the S, tells the system to run that script when moving down the init levels into runlevel 2, say from RL3 or 5. on boot, or moving up the init levels from RL0,1 or 2, the script is ignored. just as effective, though.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the K scripts get run whether going up or down. That's standard behavior, and I don't know why they'd have changed it. Since reboot is runlevel 6, nothing would be stopped before a reboot if the K scripts were ignored.

In any case, it won't be started, and if it's running when going to that runlevel, it'll be stopped. That's what I'd call disabled.