https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373021

            Bug ID: 373021
           Summary: baloo does inefficient access to db
           Product: frameworks-baloo
           Version: 5.28.0
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Baloo File Daemon
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]
  Target Milestone: ---

I have a rather large data partition to be indexed by baloo (~100k pdf files).
I noticed, that the index speed goes down the larger the db becomes. At the
same time, IO goes up.

I recreated the db in a single partition and started indexing. About half of
these files are index now (db size is 3.5 GB). The disk stats says 195916328
sectors written, which is about 1 TB (and yes, this is an old 128 MB ssd!).

It looks like, everytime baloo updates the db, the whole thing is written again
- making it very slow... and dangerous regarding the wear leveling of flash
disks.

I'm about to stop indexing because it behaves like a ssd killer. Even for old
style hard disks, the IO is so heavy after some point, that you have to stop
it.

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