Package: beagle Version: 0.3.3-2 Followup-For: Bug #466357
I concur, and there is a common case that can knock your computer to your knees. Suppose you have a program that intermittently adds to a large log file. Add one line to it: this causes beagled and beagled-helper to process the entire file. Repeat. It's not unusual for beagle to take several seconds to process a file. I do scientific computing, and it's not unusual to have a computation running for days and producing gigabytes of log. Alternatively, it's not unusual to be storing intermediate results in dozens (or even hundreds) of files. Each time a log file gets touched, beagle looks at it! I've seen situations where beagled and beagled-helper can eat up half of my CPU, while accomplishing absolutely no good at all. (Because it'll simply re-index the log file in a few more seconds...) So, this is a good reason for running the beagle analysis at low priority and with as much ionice as possible. Also, it would be a smart idea to put a limit on how often beagle will re-index a file. I would suggest something like this: interval = 5.0 + 15*sqrt(file size/1 megabyte) Don't index if the file has already been indexed within the last $interval seconds. Also, my post-doc who is somewhat enthusiastic did an analysis of a large collection of speech data. Her analysis produced a collection of 60,000 files containing tens of gigabytes of data. Beagle went ape, of course. It slowed the machine down dramatically, because beagle was well behind, and so it kept bringing old data back from disk into RAM. This caused a fair bit of disk thrashing. (And, if anyone says "Get more RAM" or "Get a faster machine", I'll take that as an offer to buy me one...) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages beagle depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii bash 3.1dfsg-9 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii dbus 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libavahi1.0-cil 0.6.19-2 CLI bindings for Avahi ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libexif12 0.6.16-2.1 library to parse EXIF files ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgalago1.0-cil 0.5.0-2.1 CLI bindings for libgalago ii libgconf2.0-cil 2.16.0-10 CLI binding for GConf 2.16 ii libglade2.0-cil 2.10.2-5 CLI binding for the Glade librarie ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglib2.0-cil 2.10.2-5 CLI binding for the GLib utility l ii libgmime2.2-cil 2.2.17-1 CLI binding for the MIME library ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.20.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-vfs2.0-cil 2.16.0-10 CLI binding for GnomeVFS 2.16 ii libgnome2.0-cil 2.16.0-10 CLI binding for GNOME 2.16 ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.20.1-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.7-2 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgsf0.0-cil 0.8-1 CLI bindings for libgsf ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.5-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtk2.0-cil 2.10.2-5 CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2 ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmono-corlib2.0-cil 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono core library (2.0) ii libmono-sharpzip2.84-c 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono SharpZipLib library ii libmono-sqlite2.0-cil 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono Sqlite library ii libmono-system-data2.0 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono System.Data Library ii libmono-system-web2.0- 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono System.Web Library ii libmono-system2.0-cil 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono System libraries (2.0) ii libmono0 1.2.6+dfsg-6 libraries for the Mono JIT ii libmono2.0-cil 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono libraries (2.0) ii libndesk-dbus-glib1.0- 0.4.1-1 CLI implementation of D-Bus (GLib ii libndesk-dbus1.0-cil 0.6.0-1 CLI implementation of D-Bus ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.20.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libtaglib2.0-cil 2.0.3.0-1 CLI library for accessing audio an ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-6 Windows metafile conversion librar ii libwv-1.2-3 1.2.4-2 Library for accessing Microsoft Wo ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxss1 1:1.1.2-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii mono-runtime 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono runtime ii xdg-utils 1.0.2-3 desktop integration utilities from ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages beagle recommends: ii mono-gmcs 1.2.6+dfsg-6 Mono C# 2.0 and C# 3.0 compiler fo ii util-linux [schedutils] 2.13.1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities ii xpdf-utils [poppler-utils] 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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