tags 708158 + moreinfo thanks Hi Charles,
could you please confirm this is really tracker going wild as we assume? Are you using gnome? The conversation that lead to this assumption: * h01ger is at loss with #708158 <h01ger> desktop gets slower when charging battery. <wRAR> "Dell lattitude E5420 laptop" <buxy> h01ger: things like tracker do not index your files when on battery, but you put power it comes back and severly impact the responsiveness of your machine <buxy> (and IME tracker has bugs where it will loop indefinitely on some files, possibly because I tend to kill forcefully when it runs and I don't want it) <h01ger> buxy, tracker is installed by default? (in the desktop task..) <buxy> h01ger: it's a depends of gnome-documents, so I think so <buxy> which is itself a Depends of gnome Please reply to [email protected] - thanks! cheers, Holger On Montag, 13. Mai 2013, Charles W Fox wrote: > Package: base > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > New Debian 7 install yesterday, Dell lattitude E5420 laptop, serial number > 19640672489. No nonstandard hardware. > > This is a very common/generic laptop, one of the standard models used at > Sheffield University. > > Running fine all day, then unplugged power to go to a 2 hour meeting on > battery. Just got back from meeting and plugged in again, battery level > is 59pc. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > When I plug the power cord back in (so the computer goes to charging) the > desktop becomes unusably sluggish, the mouse and keyboard take about a > second to respond to each input. Unplugging the cord makes everything > work again (but then the battery will run down!) > > > * What was the outcome of this action? > As well as sluggishness I can see several kworkers hogging the CPU in top. > The sluggishness makes the computer completly unusable when it is plugged > back in. > (I think it vanishes once the battery has fully recharged though) > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > Thought Wheezy would have fixed this -- it's been a known issue in Ubunu > for several years now and was a major reason for moving to Deibian, > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/998204 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1921292 > > I have been trying the suggested fix from the Ubuntu forums for two years > with no success. Some posters have said that the bug involves ACPI power > management but I'm not sure if this is actually where it comes from. > > (Sorry for sending via gmail, I did this report in reportbug but our uni > seems to have disabled SMTP since it switched us to corporate gmail.)
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