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juniper
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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:03 am Post subject: beagled-helper and pdftotext sucking up cpu |
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beagled-helper and pdftotext start sucking up my cpu (95%) every few minutes.
I have a directory with a huge number of pdf files that i want to be indexed but i don't want beagle to suck up my cpu. is this normal? is there a cure? |
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Headrush
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: Re: beagled-helper and pdftotext sucking up cpu |
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| juniper wrote: | beagled-helper and pdftotext start sucking up my cpu (95%) every few minutes.
I have a directory with a huge number of pdf files that i want to be indexed but i don't want beagle to suck up my cpu. is this normal? is there a cure? |
I noticed the same thing. Once they are initially scanned I would think it wouldn't have to be done again unless they are changed. (using inotify)
For now I just disable beagle when doing anything I need for full CPU power: UT2004.
I think in the config file you can set beagle to run at a lower priority, I don't know about beagle-helper. |
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juniper
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: beagled-helper and pdftotext sucking up cpu |
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| Headrush wrote: | | juniper wrote: | beagled-helper and pdftotext start sucking up my cpu (95%) every few minutes.
I have a directory with a huge number of pdf files that i want to be indexed but i don't want beagle to suck up my cpu. is this normal? is there a cure? |
I noticed the same thing. Once they are initially scanned I would think it wouldn't have to be done again unless they are changed. (using inotify)
For now I just disable beagle when doing anything I need for full CPU power: UT2004.
I think in the config file you can set beagle to run at a lower priority, I don't know about beagle-helper. |
do we even need beagled-helper? can we disable it? |
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juniper
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I am using the latest stable beagle (0.2.7). have you tried downgrading? just wondering if there is a fix out there. |
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juniper
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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juniper
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this annoying problem has not gone away. isn't anyone else having this problem? BUMP.
my impression from googling is that this is an upstream bug. pdftotext (which is part of the poppler package) gets hung up on certain broken pdf files. i could disable the pdf use flag, but to me pdf indexing is pretty important.
this has essentially rendered beagle unusable for me. |
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sebjames
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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I'm having the same problem with beagled-helper, it seems to be getting stuck in an infinite loop crawling a variety of directories. As I type this, beagle-status says:
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Every 5.0s: beagle-info --status Fri Aug 18 09:57:56 2006
Scheduler:
Count: 1147
Status: Executing task
Delayed 0 (18/08/2006 09:47:44)
Crawling /home/seb/development/matlab/analysis
Pending Tasks:
1 Delayed 0 (18/08/2006 09:48:05)
uid:bUM98gLAz0qlLWylDW+XsQ
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/home/seb/development/matlap/analysis contains about 550 KBytes of text files, so there's clearly something up. I've had it get hung up on various other directories as well. |
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juniper
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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hmmm, my guess it is that it is not an emerge bug. if you do a search on
beagle pdftotext
you get a lot of complaints from ubuntu forums. i think this is probably a beagle problem. have you tried downgrading? i may give that a try.
otherwise, we should probably tell the beagle people. |
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