Package: dhelp Version: 0.6.21+nmu6 Severity: wishlist I don't quite understand why, but every once in a while, what I think is this package maxes out my CPU in what seems to be an attempt at rebuilding a documentation index. According to top, it looks like this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 29460 root 20 0 187092 172884 2736 R 80,0 4,7 1:57.14 index++ And ps axfu is like this: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 22706 0.0 0.0 12644 1928 ? Ss nov08 0:00 /usr/sbin/anacron -dsq root 29439 0.0 0.0 4328 748 ? S 09:11 0:00 \_ /bin/sh -c run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly root 29445 0.0 0.0 4216 692 ? S 09:11 0:00 \_ run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly root 29453 0.0 0.0 4328 804 ? S 09:11 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp root 29458 0.1 0.5 80148 18828 ? Sl 09:11 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/ruby -w /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse -i root 29460 29.3 4.7 187092 172888 ? S 09:11 2:11 \_ /usr/bin/index++ --config-file /usr/share/dhelp/config/swish++.conf --index-file /var/lib/dhelp/documents.index --follow-links - Sometimes it's ghostscript that maxes out the CPU, but it's within the same cronjob: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10112 root 20 0 110836 21172 9268 R 99,7 0,6 0:00.74 gs The job takes about 12 minutes to complete. I am pretty sure the package list hasn't changed. I haven't done upgrades or changed the documentation set that warrants a full rebuild of the documentation. Why is this happening? And why is this happening in a cronjob and not as part of a trigger or something similar? Because this is running weekly, new packages will not be picked up for a week, which may cause confusion... The dhelp cronjob file doesn't explain its purpose either, it would be nice if it was at least possible to turn the thing off easily. A. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dhelp depends on: ii doc-base 0.10.6 ii libdata-page-perl 2.02-1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-8+b1 ii libtemplate-perl 2.24-1.2+b1 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii perl-modules 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii poppler-utils 0.26.5-2 ii pstotext 1.9-6+b1 ii ruby 1:2.1.5+deb8u1 ii ruby-bdb 0.6.6-1+b2 ii ruby-debian 0.3.9 ii ruby-gettext 3.1.2-1 ii ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter] 2.1.5-2+deb8u2 ii swish++ 6.1.5-2.2 ii ucf 3.0030 Versions of packages dhelp recommends: ii chromium [www-browser] 46.0.2490.71-1~deb8u1 ii epiphany-browser [www-browser] 3.14.1-1 ii html2text 1.3.2a-18 ii iceweasel [www-browser] 38.4.0esr-1~deb8u1 ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1 Versions of packages dhelp suggests: pn catdvi <none> pn info2www <none> pn man2html <none> ii nginx-full [httpd-cgi] 1.6.2-5 -- no debconf information
