Bug 384088

Summary: Baloo uses all memory and swap
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo Reporter: Adam <adamvnz>
Component: Baloo File DaemonAssignee: Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: hessi88, stefan.bruens
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Htop view of memory usage

Description Adam 2017-08-27 21:44:18 UTC
Created attachment 107553 [details]
Htop view of memory usage

Hi I am using arch based linux. I am having issue with baloo consuming all memory and swap.
After I have done a clean install and installed nextcloud dektop client all is ok.
After I start nextcloud (can be days latter) baloo goes all out and uses all memory. If I uninstall nextcloud baloo continues to drain all memory. I have tried this on a couple of Arch based distros "Krevenge and Antergos" with the same result. Not sure if this is baloo's or nextclouds fault.
Only solution I have at the moment is to add Indexing-Enabled=false to baloofilerc file
Have tried stopping and starting baloo with no result
Comment 1 Markus Heß 2017-09-18 10:18:45 UTC
I have the same issue on kde neon but without using nextcloud. After some time, baloo_file_extractor consumes most of the memory and swap. Also it utilizes one CPU core and whole user interface hangs sometimes for some seconds. When I kill the baloo_file_extractor, everything is fine again.
Comment 2 Stefan Brüns 2018-10-16 23:51:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 378754 ***