[gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Ow Mun Heng]

Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just
emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's
using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Jürgen Geuter]

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On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:09 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just
> emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's
> using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time.

Beagle is quite a resource hog and will keep your system busy whenever
it finds it to be "idle", that is the reason why I decided to ditch it
(I wasn't using the search functionality that much anyways).

You could make sure that "beagled" is not started upon login, that way
it will not do autoscanning of your files and only start when you use
it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

Jürgen Geuter skrev:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:09 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>> Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just
>> emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's
>> using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time.
> 
> Beagle is quite a resource hog and will keep your system busy whenever
> it finds it to be "idle", that is the reason why I decided to ditch it
> (I wasn't using the search functionality that much anyways).
> 
> You could make sure that "beagled" is not started upon login, that way
> it will not do autoscanning of your files and only start when you use
> it.
> 
> regards
> 
> Jürgen

Beagle is not supposed to use an awful lot of CPU-time, except for rare
peaks. If it uses a lot of CPU-cycles for more than a few seconds it's a
bug - most likely in a plug-in. Especially the SVG plug-in tends to have
issues.

The memory consumption is however quite high.

-Kristian Poul Herkild
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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Jürgen Geuter]

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On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:21 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:

> Beagle is not supposed to use an awful lot of CPU-time, except for rare
> peaks. If it uses a lot of CPU-cycles for more than a few seconds it's a
> bug - most likely in a plug-in. Especially the SVG plug-in tends to have
> issues.

Well it started to get really annoying when I added my
ebook/documentation directory to the scanned dirs (it's an nfs share
with PDFs), that made the beagled-helper thingy go berzerk on my poor
old processor. Maybe that is an nfs thing, or the PDFs were nasty.
Having it scan just my home dir was OK most of the time, I admit. But
the Documentation/Ebook indexing was pretty much the only reason I was
looking into beagle in the first place ;)

> The memory consumption is however quite high.

Yeah that was another thing bugging me, having some merge running in the
background and beagle kicking in made this thing crawl :(


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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:41 +0100, Jürgen Geuter wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:21 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> 
> > Beagle is not supposed to use an awful lot of CPU-time, except for rare
> > peaks. If it uses a lot of CPU-cycles for more than a few seconds it's a
> > bug - most likely in a plug-in. Especially the SVG plug-in tends to have
> > issues.
> 
> Well it started to get really annoying when I added my
> ebook/documentation directory to the scanned dirs (it's an nfs share


no clue what exactly is happening and now, I'm frequently getting pissed
at it and kill it.
This is version 0.2.16 in portage BTW

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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Roy Wright]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> no clue what exactly is happening and now, I'm frequently getting pissed
> at it and kill it.
> This is version 0.2.16 in portage BTW
>
>   

I saw the same until I unmerged beagle... again.

Makes me dream of 4 cores, one for beagle, one for beryl, one for daily
emerge, and
one to accomplish work with...  :-)

Have fun,
Roy

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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Kent Fredric]

>
> no clue what exactly is happening and now, I'm frequently getting pissed
> at it and kill it.
> This is version 0.2.16 in portage BTW

How often do people here actually -use- beagle?

I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the
default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little
more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG '
quite frankly disgusting.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:50 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> How often do people here actually -use- beagle?
> 
> I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the
> default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little
> more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG '
> quite frankly disgusting 

Some people may actually get more use out of it.  For example I use it
several times a day.  I agree totally that it's far from perfect, but so
far the best solution I've tried.

A 'find ... |grep' would take a looong time to run just on my home
directory.  A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files
in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is
changed/added/removed.  And not just text in files but also other kinds
of metadata.  And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool
if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the
exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop
for searching my stuff.

Btw, I did a search for "string" in Beagle and it only took a few
seconds to return some intelligent results.  A similar 'find ... |grep'
is still running after 17 minutes and is consuming a good amount of CPU
in the process.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:50 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> > How often do people here actually -use- beagle?
> > 
> > I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the
> > default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little
> > more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG '
> > quite frankly disgusting 
> A 'find ... |grep' would take a looong time to run just on my home
> directory.  A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files
> in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is
> changed/added/removed.  And not just text in files but also other kinds
> of metadata.  And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool
> if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the
> exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop
> for searching my stuff.


The find can only be used when the file are txt files and not
pdf/OOo/Excel etc

Unfortunately.

I've only used it like 2-5 times thus far..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Roger Mason]

Hello Albert,

Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org> writes:

>  A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files
> in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is
> changed/added/removed.  And not just text in files but also other kinds
> of metadata.  And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool
> if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the
> exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop
> for searching my stuff.

pinot (http://directory.fsf.org/pinot.html) may do what you want.  It
is not in portage but most of its dependencies are.

Roger

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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Alan E. Davis]

I am perturbed that beagle has grabbed 99% of CPU time.  If I kill it,
within 5 seconds another process is spawned, again grabbing 99%.  I
don't even USE beagle.  Is it possible to unmerge it without affecting
other programs?

If I understand correctly, I have found the following to be quite good
for indexing and rapid searching of defined directories:

app-misc/glimpse

As an added bonus, together with glimpse comes "agrep" or "almost
grep" that can search like grep with a specified number of spelling
errors.

I will unmerge beagle just to see what will happen.

Alan

On 3/2/07, Roger Mason <rmason@esd.mun.ca> wrote:
> Hello Albert,
>
> Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org> writes:
>
> >  A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files
> > in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is
> > changed/added/removed.  And not just text in files but also other kinds
> > of metadata.  And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool
> > if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the
> > exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop
> > for searching my stuff.
>
> pinot (http://directory.fsf.org/pinot.html) may do what you want.  It
> is not in portage but most of its dependencies are.
>
> Roger
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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

Ow Mun Heng skrev:
> Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just
> emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's
> using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time.
> 
> 
> 

It is most likely due a bug in one of the plug-ins. I usually have
beagle-helper running at close to 100% because of some SVG-files with
malformed XML.

You might want to take a look at the FAQ at Beagle's website.

Beagle is not supposed to take a lot of resources, nor wasting
CPU-cycles while running in an endless empty loop.


-Kristian Poul Herkild
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Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Ow,
on Tuesday, 2007-02-27 at 18:09:13, you wrote:
> Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just
> emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's
> using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time.

I was under the impression that this was its raison d'être...?
An Apache project perpetr^Wported to .NET can't be anything but a
resource hog. It looked pretty interesting when they included it with
the SuSE we use @work so it got installed on a few boxes, but seeing
what it did to these 2800 MHz P4s put it on top of the list of things to
be disabled before rollout.

cheers!
	Matthias
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