Control: tag -1 + wontfix ¡Hola Leoš! El 2017-06-27 a las 18:26 -0400, Leoš Pohl escribió:
Package: baloo-kf5 Version: 5.28.0-2 Severity: important
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.
baloo is disabled by default because of this kind of behaviours. It's useful for some use cases, particularly if you have only a few files in you home directory, but starting the index with a large amount of files takes a long time, and if it reaches it's db limitations (which are particularly low on 32 bit systems) it may never finish.
From the Debian side of things there is little we can do about this so I'm tagging this issue as wontfix. But please, forward the issue upstream reporting it to: https://bugs.kde.org.
Happy hacking, -- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" -- Bert Lance "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke" -- Lieutenant Colonel Walt Weir Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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