Hi, On 3/28/07, Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My main issue is that I can not get it to run only on off hours. When it is running I am unable to use my machine for anything worth while. It hogs most memory and CPU usuage. I have problems with even the CLI.
There's an important distinction to be made here, and I'd like to know which of these (or both) are biting you. The more resource-intensive indexing process is broken into two parts: (a) A systemwide crawler which is run from cron. This is very much like the updatedb process you have if you install findutils-locate or use another distribution like Fedora or Ubuntu. This is used to index systemwide resources like application launchers and system documentation. This is a one-off process run once a day. This process is called "beagle-build-index" in "ps ax" and is run from the "beagle-crawl-system" cronjob. (b) A per-user component which crawls your home directory and indexes your personal data. This (unless configured otherwise) stays within your home dir and notices changes, additions, and removals in real time. This process exists for only as long as you are logged in. These processes are called "beagled" and "beagled-helper" when you do a "ps ax". Right now (a) kicks off roughly every 24 hours. The problem is that it starts 15 minutes after you first installed the distro, so it often runs right in the middle of your day! This is very inconvenient, and I mentioned that elsewhere in the thread. Fortunately you can fix this by editing the /etc/sysconfig/cron file and set the DAILY_TIME variable to something like "04:00" to run at 4am. After editing this file, be sure to run "SuSEconfig". For (b), it's the core component of Beagle and you can't turn it off without turning search off altogether. But (b) is also designed to be as unobtrusive as possible, and so if it's eating your machine, it's a bug and we need to track down why.
The problem is how do you attempt to debug it when you can not even do CLI while it is running. For example if I ssh to the box running beagle... I am unable to get a connection. I am unable to mount or unmount a NFS share from the machine. Only when beagle is running.
Install the 0.2.16.3 version I mentioned earlier in the thread. First, it may have fixed the bug you were seeing in the first place. Secondly, if it didn't, it now runs at a higher "nice" level so interactivity should improve even if it does run away. And lastly, you can disable it running at login time and run it in the foreground and lots of debugging info with the "--fg --debug" options. Hopefully that will at least give you the opportunity to see what's going on and more importantly to kill it if need be. Thanks, Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
