Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources OS: Linux A process called nepomukservices starts with my KDE and takes most of my CPU and I don't know what it is, what it does and how to manage it.I stopped it with ksysguard because when I killed it earlier then Dolphin crashed. I don't want it. This seems a recent behaviour. Also I added a component to the Product Nepomuk in this bug database so that people can actually issue bug reports. You might want to check the description of it.
nepomukserver is not the problem and should not be killed. If CPU usage is high it is due to Strigi doing the initial indexing. The technology is new and thus, a proper GUI is missing (the plan is to have a silent popup which informs about the initial indexing and allows to postpone or cancel it). Normally, Strigi should not be started by default. If that is the case, we have a bug and I will look into it. In any case systemsettings provide a Nepomuk configuration GUI in the advanced section. Here you can disable Strigi.
I have the same issue. Strigi desktop search is disabled but automatically gets launched with nepomukserver and causes nepomukservices to become CPU heavy.
14429 hrw 20 0 225M 28344 13960 R 98.4 0.7 2:26.03 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage 98% of CPU use (according to htop) is on my system when nepomuk and strigi are enabled. Nepomuk 4.0.74 from Debian/experimental Strigi daemon 0.5.9 from Debian/unstable
that is because strigi does its initial indexing which takes a while and makes heavy use of the nepomuk storage service. I know that this is far from optimal and am working on optimizations.
It's very CPU intensive on my Core2duo; runs at an average of 50% usage. It was enabled by default on first run, but I highly doubt it's still doing that 'initial indexing' since it's sucking off 50% of my cpu since 4 days, and I only have some 14gb of data in my home, and i've excluded a lot of it.
well, the initial indexing is slow. Sorry. could you please check if the output of "sopranocmd --help" contains "sesame2". If that is not the case there is another bottleneck: the storage backend uses redland instead of sesame2 which is very slow.
Any way we can change the backend from redland to sesame2?
once the sesame2 backend is installed, it is used automatically. Existing data is converted.
Every time KDE starts up, "nepomukservices" starts drawing the output of 1 CPU core. If I kill it, strigidaemon starts indexing, but it never stops and never seems to do anything, strigi-client says that 0 files have been indexed. Every now and again nepomukservices comes back to life and strigidaemon stops until I kill it. Using the Kubuntu Hardy rc1 packages.
Raif: if you kill "nepomukservices nepomukstorage" then strigi has no place where to store the data anymore. initial indexing takes time and cpu. no way around that except to disable strigi. You can have a look at the "nepomuk" module in kde's systemsettings.
Sebastian, please, did you read the comments above carefully enough to notice that for at least one user the "initial indexing" of a mere 14GB of data took at FOUR DAYS if not more? "Initial indexing is slow, sorry" is not an answer. This performance is problematic. It ***IS*** a bug. Here's my experience: nepomukserver runs 4 instances of nepomukservices, 3 of which just sit there and do nothing, and the fourth eats about 50% CPU (which is probably the KDE4 System Monitor's way of saying that it uses about 100% of one core on a dual core system), PLUS it consumes 800+ MB RAM (and slowly growing) on a 2G system. Either these ***ARE*** bugs, or nepomuk is a bad design to begin with.
Regarding the mem usage: this is due to the java vm which is used. This is bad but atm there is no better solution. As for the initial indexing taking four days: I said that this happens with the redland backend. The one not using java. The redland backend is slow. That is why there is no better solution than the java one atm. The two services "just sitting" there are used less frequently than the others. So the only real problem is the mem usage. And that I was not able to solve until now. Sorry. You can always disable Nepomuk if that troubles you. Or help in improving it. But ranting never helped anyone. ;)
Could any of you see if the bug pertains in the current trunk? Fixing bug #167682 fixed this for me, it turned out that I had looping directory structure and nepomuk (well, KDirWatch really) followed it without end. This also led to a problem with gamin, so that nepomuk & gamin saturated the CPU and RAM.
I have the same problem on my laptop. Strigi does its initial indexing and the CPU usage decreased. Now its all right. But can we limit CPU usage when nepomuk or Strigi do their indexing when the computer is a laptop on batteries?
> But can we limit CPU usage when nepomuk or Strigi do their indexing when > the computer is a laptop on batteries? the new strigi service will suspend indexing completely when on batteries once Solid has laptop support (currently being implemented AFAIK)
+1. very annoying and unneeded, especially on a 8gb solid-state drive.
Nick: +1 for what?
for original poster. it would be cool if nepomuk detected such (ssd, or just small-capacity) systems and turned itself off
System is Debian Unstable pulling KDE apps from experimental. Strigi version: 0.5.11-1 overall system uptime is currently at 18 days and the current X session has been running the entire time with nepomuk/strigi consuming 80-100% of a single 2.6ghz core. Strigi is set to only index my home directory which contains a total of 5.5gb of data (primarily source code and pdfs) using the redline backend. This seems totally unacceptable as this renders strigi essentially useless. Is there any purpose of having the redland backend enabled at all? Perhaps strigi should simply disable itself while sesame2 is not available for use.
SVN commit 852681 by trueg: - Added storage interface decsription - Make sure the DBus service control interface is registered before the service is \ created. Also make sure we already have an event loop at that point. This is \ important since the server needs to catch the serviceInitialized signal. - Do not start the strigi service if redland is in use. BUG: 161380 M +1 -0 interfaces/CMakeLists.txt A interfaces/org.kde.nepomuk.Storage.xml M +23 -11 server/servicecontroller.cpp M +2 -0 services/storage/storage.cpp M +3 -0 services/strigi/CMakeLists.txt M +28 -16 services/strigi/strigiservice.cpp M +9 -42 servicestub/main.cpp M +55 -2 servicestub/servicecontrol.cpp M +16 -3 servicestub/servicecontrol.h
I don't know if it's really fixed.. at least with beta2 of kde4.2 (Soprano::PluginManager) found plugin file "/usr/share/soprano/plugins/sesame2backend.desktop" (Soprano::PluginManager) plugin has proper version. --backend The backend to use when accessing a storage directly and not via the Soprano server. Possible backends are: redland, sesame2 I'm just indexing my /home directory, running df -h: /dev/sda4 59G 11G 46G 19% /home The indexing now already takes 3 days... that's quite a long time for 11 gb of indexing.
Do you have many archives (tar,zip,rpm,...) in the indexed files? That could be the reason also since Strigi does index all files in the archives which takes a long time. Strigi from svn does contain a hack to prevent this which is used by Nepomuk if compiled against that version of Strigi. Final KDE 4.2 should be shipped with this "new" version of Strigi.
Not too many in my home folder, maybe 20-30 packages (overall probably 200-300 MB). I got a lot of source code flying around there (so a lot of small files), including the kdelibs and qt source and the wine source. Does stigri index . folders? like .svn? That could also be the reason, since I have some huge repositories here at work [stiat@arch ~]$ find . |wc -l 288688 [stiat@arch ~]$ find . |grep -v .svn |wc -l 190679 I don't think that's uncommon on developer workboxes, but maybe I should help stigri excluding those development folders.
It seems, that nepomuk get into infinite loop on empty folder, at least in my system. In my case it is ~/smb4k.
This is back in Kubuntu 11.04. First I though it was the ati drivers but now when I connect my external drive. Nepomuservices and kded4 both go to 50% cpu cycles making impossible to work with my system anymore. Even when save removing my external drive. It jus keeps eating cycles.