Hi Vojtěch. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zei...@opensuse.org> wrote: > Dne Čt 13. srpna 2015 14:36:35, Mark Knecht napsal(a): >> Hi, >> I'm not sure if this is a Gentoo issue or a KDE issue so I'll start >> on the KDE list. Thanks in advance. >> >> I have a problem that's developed recently. The basic symptom is >> the machine slows down horribly at some point in the afternoon with >> the disk activity light is full on - no blinking at all. This results >> in all applications - Virtualbox, Chrome, etc. - essentially ceasing >> to operate correctly and KDE to sometimes locking up for 5-10 minutes. >> Due to recent messages from Gentoo devs requiring baloo I've started >> looking there. >> >> When I'm in this state where disk activity appears to be 100% I see >> large wait percentages in top. (3 CPUs in this state right now.) >> Running iotop it appears that something called baloo_file_extractor is >> spending 99.9% of its time waiting. > > There has been several bugs reported on that topic... > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349096 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233471 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333655 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332317 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333774 > Vojtěch
Wow, you've been dealing with this for a long time! (#333655) Sorry to hear that. Thanks for providing the links. I Was wondering last night if some of my problem is due to the way I've set up shared directories in Virtualbox. A number of directories inside of Gentoo are seen as remote drives inside of my Windows VMs allowing the VMs to share data with each other. A lot of my Baloo problems seem to come in the afternoon, after the stock market closes and the VMs are saving lots of stock price data to these directories. I end up with 1000's of files rewritten every afternoon. Anyway, I appreciate the response and am going down the path suggested by Duncan, along with simply disabling indexing, assuming that option work. We'll see over the next few days. Cheers, Mark ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
