Bugzilla Automation <[email protected]> has asked [email protected] for maintainer-feedback: Bug 230726: sysutils/kf5-baloo: freezes the system https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230726
--- Description --- After upgrading from x11/kde4 to x11/kde5, I found there is a process called 'baloo_file' which seems to use a lot of system resources. If I forget to kill it within minutes after starting a GNOME session, the entire system will freeze. Yes, installing KDE can affect GNOME, as /usr/local/etc/xdg/autostart/baloo_file.desktop has X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true. I can change it to false to avoid the problem in GNOME, but it sounds like a workaround. When baloo_file freezes the system, I can still move the mouse but no desktop applications are responding. SSH server becomes almost non-responsive and it takes several minutes just to get a login shell. Typing any simple commands such as 'killall' takes minutes to complete, and even logging in from a local VT is hard. When you type your user name, it takes several minutes to show the password prompt. If you press Ctrl-T at that time, you will see the following message. load: 0.47 cmd: login 1141 [vlruwk] 204838.88r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 240 Most of the time it is stuck at [vlruwk] or [ufs] while the system load is low. I am not sure whether it is related to the number of files under my home directory. My home directory has about 2500000 files because I store hundreds of git repositories, mostly GNOME source code, and builds of GNOME and FreeBSD in it.
