Bug#866173: baloo-kf5: Baloo indexing results in full freeze of plasma desktop
Package: baloo-kf5
Version: 5.28.0-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
upon enabling baloo file search (System settings -> Search -> File Search) in Stretch after upgrade,
it starts to index files. However, there are brief surges of CPU use which lead to 100% use
of one core out of 4 available. During this surge, the whole plasma desktop becomes unusable,
eg. desktops cannot be switched, terminal freezes, the surges happen about every 10 s and
last about 2-3 s. Although in Debian 8, baloo did use significant amount of CPU as well,
the desktop freezing did not occur. Finally not every surge leads to a complete lockup of the plasma
desktop.
In the worst event that baloo fully takes over resources of one core, the rest of the system has
still available sufficient resources to continue functioning without interuption.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages baloo-kf5 depends on:
ii kio 5.28.0-2
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libkf5baloo5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5balooengine5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configcore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5crash5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5filemetadata3 5.28.0-1+b2
ii libkf5i18n5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5idletime5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5kiocore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5solid5 5.28.0-3
ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5dbus5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5qml5 5.7.1-2+b2
ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
baloo-kf5 recommends no packages.
baloo-kf5 suggests no packages.
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