Package: localsearch Version: 3.11.0-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, I use a custom live cd (built via live build) very often (as a daily driver in fact), and find localsearch rather problematic, because of CPU usage, and "disk" space usage (which in live cd is actually tmpfs / RAM). Sometimes I create directories with millions of files in home directory (i.e. git clones, or live build itself), and localsearch indexes them with index in memory, and cause three issues: 1. Some files are owned by root (due to how lb_build works), so localsearch complains and log and db spams about millions of files. 2. CPU usage is generally high. 3. DB disk space usage, can easily be in 5 to 10GB in such scenario, and because of live cd environment, these gigabytes do live in tmpfs / RAM, eating precious resources. As I do not really use localsearch, I wish to disable it. I do know there are toggles in the gnome settings to do that, but they do not appear to work (i.e. localsearch is still running, and I need to kill it and purge index cache), and as I use live cd environment, these settings are lost after each reboot, and are easy to forgot. I wish to disable it during live cd build (via chroot script), instead fixing later. I did for now systemctl --global mask localsearch-3.service localsearch-control-3.service localsearch-writeback-3.service || true but I do not know if this is really a correct solution. unlink /etc/xdg/autostart/localsearch-3.desktop is another option, but that will not work if I upgrade localsearch package, as upgrade will restore that file. I would appreciate README.Debian that documents proper way to disable it globally (for all users), even before any of the users ever logged into system (i.e. when user is not even added to the system). There are many conflicting information on various forums and blogs, some are outdated, or not quite correct, and others are fragile, and can break in the near future. Uninstalling localsearch does not appear to be an option due to package dependencies. Regards, Witold -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.19.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages localsearch depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.49.0-4 ii libc6 2.42-14 ii libcue2 2.2.1-4.2 ii libexempi8 2.6.6-2+b1 ii libgexiv2-2 0.14.6-2 ii libgif7 5.2.2-1+b2 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.88.0-1 ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.53-1.1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.28.1-1 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.28.1-1 ii libgxps2t64 0.3.2-6 ii libicu78 78.3-1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.1.5-4 ii libpng16-16t64 1.6.56-1 ii libpoppler-glib8t64 25.03.0-11.1+b1 ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2+b1 ii libtiff6 4.7.1-1 ii libtinysparql-3.0-0 3.11.0-1 ii libtotem-plparser18 3.26.6-3 ii libupower-glib3 1.91.2-1 ii libwebpdemux2 1.5.0-0.1+b1 ii libxml2-16 2.15.2+dfsg-0.1 ii procps 2:4.0.4-9+b1 ii tinysparql 3.11.0-1 Versions of packages localsearch recommends: ii localsearch-extractor-ffmpeg 3.11.0-1 ii localsearch-extractor-iso 3.11.0-1 ii localsearch-extractor-office 3.11.0-1 localsearch suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
