Bug 334726

Summary:	Add configuration options to allow Baloo to be limited to a certain % CPU / RAM /IO
Product:	[Unmaintained] Baloo	Reporter:	NMD <bugsnmd>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Vishesh Handa <me>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description NMD 2014-05-13 22:43:40 UTC

Hi,

It would be great if options could be added (ideally enabled by default) to allow Baloo to be limited to a certain percentage of CPU and RAM and perhaps I/O as well.

Whilst mostly it works well, I've been getting points where Baloo uses so much CPU that my laptop is unusable - I can't even get up the KDE system activity - and I have to go away and leave it for a bit until it calms down. Seems like adding limits to how much system resources it will use would stop this problem and might calm down some of the people asking for ways to disable it.

Cheers.
Nick

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Vishesh Handa 2014-05-14 08:47:48 UTC

Hey Nick.

Could you please file a detailed bug about which component is using too much CPU? We have tried to write a simple guide over here - http://community.kde.org/Baloo/Debugging

Comment 2 NMD 2014-05-21 16:26:18 UTC

On Wed 14 May 2014 09:47:48 BST, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334726
>
> --- Comment #1 from Vishesh Handa <me@vhanda.in> ---
> Hey Nick.
>
> Could you please file a detailed bug about which component is using too much
> CPU? We have tried to write a simple guide over here -
> http://community.kde.org/Baloo/Debugging
>

Hi Vishesh,

I'll try and give that a go!
Nick

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2014-07-17 17:24:01 UTC

Nick, any progress?

Comment 4 NMD 2014-07-19 16:57:36 UTC

Hi Christoph,
Sorry for the slow reply, I've actually been mostly away from my computer: but the problem hasn't recurred I think. So I'm not sure if the initial problems were just it indexing everything in the first couple weeks of a fresh install?

I'm pretty sure the component was baloo_file_extractor. Will look in more detail if it happens again.

Comment 5 Vishesh Handa 2014-07-29 16:38:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 333774 ***