The recent 0.111 release in xenial and the Ubuntu Phone vivid overlay should improve things somewhat:
1. we are using taglib directly for scanning of music files (videos still go through GStreamer). 2. batch index updates during the "initial scan" phase when the daemon starts up or removable media is mounted, resulting in fewer flushes. While this might not reduce CPU usage much (although it probably will while scanning music), it reduced flushes should make it play better with other IO on the system. It seems a lot less intrusive when I let it rescan my music collection from scratch. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mediascanner2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398614 Title: mediascanner-service-2.0 using large amounts of CPU Status in mediascanner2 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Each time I plug my external USB hard disk the mediascanner-service process is activ and is using large amount of CPU for long minutes without interruption. I have the same problem in utopic and vivid ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: mediascanner2.0 0.105+15.04.20141030.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Dec 3 00:29:43 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-26 (1286 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) SourcePackage: mediascanner2 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2013-11-26 (371 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mediascanner2/+bug/1398614/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
