I've stopped in now, would have to set it going again. CPU is not the issue though, it's usage is minimal, but the system is slow to the point of unresponsiveness. It's kinda weird, it looks idle in top but it feels overloaded.
That's why I started looking at file handles etc. Mark > On 11 Aug 2017, at 09:08, Tobias C. Berner <tcber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mark > > what's the output of 'balooctl stauts'? Is it still doing the initial > indexing -- that's the one that causes a lot of cpu usage. Afterwards it > should calm down.... theoretically :D > > mfg Tobias > >> On 10 August 2017 at 22:12, Mark Dixon <mnd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having problems with Baloo again. I'm not sure exactly what the >> requirements are for it, but I must be doing something wrong. It essentially >> renders the system unusable. >> >> I finally caught it in this state - CPU is minimal, and memory isn't too bad >> (for this box) - baloo_file was using 1.5G. What surprised me was the output >> of lsof: >> >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *881r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 20453 44020 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/value.c >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *882r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 306 44006 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/Makefile.am >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *883r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 14123 30810 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/Makefile >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *884r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 2225 44015 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/strbuffer.c >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *885r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 243238 44360 >> /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/libjansson.a >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *886r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 11784 44356 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/utf.o >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *887r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 66568 44352 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/load.o >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *888r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 1439 44013 >> /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/jansson_private.h >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *889r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 80232 44358 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/value.o >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *890r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 33800 44350 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/hashtable.o >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *891r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 13152 44009 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/dump.c >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *892r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 897 44016 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/strbuffer.h >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *893r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 10368 44354 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/strbuffer.o >> baloo_fil 1808 mark *894r VREG 110,3406168081 >> 6214 44011 /usr/home/mark/cudaminer/CudaMiner/compat/jansson/hashtable.h >> >> etc... >> >> The number of lines was quite impressive though: >> >> $ lsof | grep 1808 | wc -l >> 983978 >> >> What is it doing with all these files? Is this likely the cause of the >> unresponsive system? >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> >