Beagle not Indexing Files -- also locks up system
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Sat Jul 15 19:14:48 UTC 2006
I've just started beagle. It's been hard at work for about a day with
CPU usage generally at about 100%. It has indexed some of my mail and
probably some of my mailing list, but not much else. I'm accessing
beagle via the KDE kerry applet, which seems to run OK; user_xattr is
enable in the filesystems being indexed.
This is my second run; in the first run I didn't have user_xattr
enabled: I ran beagled for a while, stopped it deleted ~/.beagle, and
restarted. It's possible that this may have confused file attributes.
BTW: While I was composing this message, beagled and evolution got into
a very strange state, using vast amounts of CPU time and swap space.
The swap space was (if I remember right) about 2.9 GB, which was enough
to give the system an unusably slow response. I killed beagled --
unsuccessfully using beagle-shutdown and then successfully using pkill
-- which restored the system to usability, and then killed evolution --
also via pkill, sinde it was totally unresponsive -- which caused the
swap space to be freed.
Here's a log of my fight with beagle and evolution:
844 ~ $ beagle-shutdown
845 ~ $ pgrep beagle
2730
2855
846 ~ $ beagle-shutdown --help
ERROR: The Beagle daemon does not appear to be running <== Plainly WRONG
847 ~ $ pkill beagle
848 ~ $ pkill -9 beagle
849 ~ $ pgrep beagle
850 ~ $ pkill evolution
Does anyone know:
Why beagled isn't indexing my files?
Why beagled is taking so long to do anything?
What just happened to my system?
Here is the output, taken before the swap fit, of:
$ beagle-info --index-info
Index information:
Name: EvolutionDataServer
Count: 200
Indexing: False
Name: EvolutionMail
Count: 3928
Indexing: False
Name: KMail
Count: 0
Indexing: True
Name: Files
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: GaimLog
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: IndexingService
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: Tomboy
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: Blam
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: Liferea
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: Akregator
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: KonquerorHistory
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: Kopete
Count: 0
Indexing: False
Name: applications
Count: 450
Indexing: False
Name: documentation
Count: 15494
Indexing: False
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