At last, a new Ubuntu release seems to have made a difference. With
Xenial, I'm down to a couple of seconds or less populating the Dash
first time on first login. I'm not sure if it's down to the new release
since I already had a startup command to preload selected scopes
according to Bruno Nova's
At last, a new Ubuntu release seems to have made a difference. With
Xenial, I'm down to a couple of seconds or less populating the Dash
first time on first login. I'm not sure if it's down to the new release
since I already had a startup command to preload selected scopes
according to Bruno Nova's
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Not completely. While this change improve things on zeitgeist side (not
fully), the unity lens part has still some room for improvements I
think.
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Is this bug done? Can I remove the unity-lens task?
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This bug was fixed in the package zeitgeist - 0.9.16-0ubuntu4
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zeitgeist (0.9.16-0ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium
[ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
* debian/patches/startup-database-vacuum.patch:
- Perform VACUUM operation on activity DB on startup (LP: #919801)
[ Iain Lane ]
@TomasHnyk, the vacuum cleans up the database, it shouldn't delete
records...
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The attachment "zeitgeist_0.9.16-upstart-and-vacuum-support.debdiff"
seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to
the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the
debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch"
flag from the attachment
BTW: not that I ever properly understood what Zeitgeist was for nor I am
sure if it is not more or less abandonded these days, but does not this
make it rather useless? Was not it supposed to learn th efrequency of
things you use so that they can be then displayed as first results in
the Dash? i.e.
Updated patch with proper patch-headers
** Patch added: "zeitgeist_0.9.16-upstart-and-vacuum-support.debdiff"
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** Patch removed: "zeitgeist_0.9.
Use upstart for launching zeitgeist in Unity and add a zeitgeist-vacuum
that performs vacuum operation on database every few days.
** Patch added: "zeitgeist_0.9.16-upstart-and-vacuum-support.debdiff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zeitgeist/+bug/919801/+attachment/4563120/+files/ze
** Also affects: zeitgeist (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: zeitgeist (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: zeitgeist (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: zeitgeist (Ubuntu)
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#26 seems to have made a huge difference for me on 15.10. Perhaps there
should be some built-in regular maintenance for that database.
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Same problem here, at first use I'm used to wait 30 sec before I can
open any app, quite embarrassing at work.
I've noticed that users without home encryption have only a negligible
delay
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First search on a quadcore 2.8Ghz machine with 250MB/s ssd drive took
around 30 seconds, but only first search.
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Unity dash fi
I just experienced some monumental slowness on my work laptop, which is
a Latitude E7440 that came with Ubuntu on it from Dell. Intel i5, 8GB
RAM, SSD, and still I felt like I was on a Pentium 4 rig. The slowness
got worse over time, but I did my best to ignore it. I just didn't
understand how my l
Well, I've still got it in 14.10. There's no doubt that this isn't a
priority. We can probably only put our hope in Unity 8.
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How is this still not fixed? I'm so sick of this bug, I've had it for
years now. I'm at the point where I'll probably switch to Mint or
something else.
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I'm pretty sure that's because of reading stuff from the hard drive (and
I'd expect it to be more Unity related than Zeitgeist).
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I have the same behavior on 3 different PCs, all i7s. It often takes
40 seconds for results to show up in the dash during the first 5-10
minutes of use.
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This is still an issue on 14.04. From the moment the desktop appears
until the first search result shows up on the dash it's a good minute
and a half on a moderately fast laptop (i5-4200M, 8GB RAM, 7200rpm hdd).
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I've rashly remove all the stuff making it slow:
sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-friends unity-scope-audacious unity-scope-
chromiumbookmarks unity-scope-clementin unity-scope-colourlovers unity-
scope-devhelp unity-scope-fireoxbookmarks unity-scope-gdrive unity-
scope-gmusicbrowser unity-scope-gour
Still a problem 14.04. :-(
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Seems like they don't care. So sad Synapse is discontinued…
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Two-years old most heated bug... probably importance should be at least
'High'.
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This is still a problem after upgrading two computers to 13.10.
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I am seeing this issue as well, all results popup instantly except for
local applications i will get results on music and books i can buy and
local files but takes a while for my local application to appear.
happens on two laptops one with radeon the other with intel graphics and
its a tad frustra
upgraded from 12.04 and the main search function is basically unusable
due to slowness. Takes 5 seconds to just 'fade in'. Beauty trumps
function I suppose :-/
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Can the importance/priority be escalated here?
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Any progress on this issue? The tips worked to a certain extent, but did
not fix it. The issue is with Unity and not Zeitgeist, since Synapse
works fine and fast. This problem is crucial, because it undermines one
of the main assets of the Dash: finding anything fast. I don't mind
waiting for Amazo
Trying the sqlite vacuum command didn't work all that well even though I
think it helped a little. It got even slightly better by deleting
everything in the ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/ directory but still, Dash is
quite slow to polulate the first time after login.
Now, the results of the files lens
This tweak speeds up things a little for me, thanks!
You can automate it by creating a cron-job, e.g. create a file in
/etc/cron.daily/, name it "cleanupdash" or whatever you want and paste
#!/bin/sh
sqlite3 ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite vacuum
into it. Save it, change permission
su
According to this link
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2106949), you could achieve
the same by installing sqlite3 and performing:
cd .local/share/zeitgeist/
sqlite3 activity.sqlite vacuum
I'll be trying that on the worst of my three Ubuntu machines. On this
one, I tried emptying ~/local
Same here in 13.04 (upgraded from 12.10). Whenever I perform a search in the
Dash, "More suggestions" is the first category to appear, followed by
"Application" and, much later, "Files".
Doughy's tip works great (thanks!) but the average user shouldn't be asked to
come to this. I hope all the op
Are the optimisations released in Raring yet? I am still finding it slow
at times.
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Michal: done, bug 1100222
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You can open a new private bug targeted against lp:zeitgeist and attach
the db to it.
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Well, I am afraid I will not be able to take advantage of them until
13.04 is released as I am on Quantal now (and backing up and then
removing the directory made it fast).
How can I send it to you, would a link to you e-mail be sufficient?
After all, I do not want to upload to the internet my who
that would be great... Keep in mind a lot of good optimization are coming
out soon
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:18 PM, TomasHnyk wrote:
> The same for me as for Jan Rathman on 12.10. The problem seems to be with
> zeitgeist.
> ~/.local/share/zeitgeist had the size of 182MB and was (I guess) couple
The same for me as for Jan Rathman on 12.10. The problem seems to be with
zeitgeist.
~/.local/share/zeitgeist had the size of 182MB and was (I guess) couple of
years old (this home directory dates back to 5.10 days). The new one is just
1.3MB. If the developers wish, I can send them the old zei
I have run into the same bug during the last months on Quantal. For
quite some time I wondered whether it is normal that searching for files
in the dash takes so long. After applying Doughy's hint to delete
~/.local/share/zeitgeist the dash file search has become much faster, so
that helped als wor
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Status: Expired => Confirmed
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[Expired for unity-lens-files (Ubuntu) because there has been no
activity for 60 days.]
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Status: Incomplete => Expired
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** Project changed: unity => unity-lens-files
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Thanks for taking time to report and helping to make ubuntu better. Its
been a while since bug was reported, there have been alot of changes in
Unity over the last couple of months. Can you please try the latest ISO
of the Ubuntu 12.04 beta and let us know if the issue have been resolved
for you.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Thanks for digging through this Doughy; I am not sure why Zeitgeist
searches were slowing down, they are usually very fast. I'll attach a
Zeitgeist task to check if anyone there have any ideas...
** Also affects: zeitgeist
Importance: Undecided
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Glad to see the problem was identified and resolved, I'll change the
status back to new. Indeed, you should file a separate bug report
regarding your indexing problem as it doesn't appear to be related to
this.
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Status: Incomplete => New
** Changed in: unity
I may have found a solution. I went into my ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
folder and deleted all contents. I then ran "zeitgeist-daemon --replace"
in a terminal to restart it, and things now work much faster when
searching for those folders.
Now my complaint is that the folders in my home directory are
The problem seems to be with the zeitgeist-daemon. When I search for my
folders, I watch my CPU usage and zeitgeist-daemon goes up significantly
until the folder is found.
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I should clarify... I still have the original problem on my user
session. However, the lag problem does not happen with other user
accounts on the same machine.
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I take that back. It now appears to be working for the default user
directories like "Pictures" and "Videos." However, other directories
only worked if I manually created a bookmark in Nautilus. The search
returned results quickly, so I did not experience the problem of lag on
the other user accoun
I tried both a Guest account and another user account on my same
machine. In both cases, the search function returned nothing when I
searched for a particular folder, even though I verified that the
folders I searched for did in fact exist within that user's home
directory. I even searched for the
thanks for the bug report. Can you login to a guest session or create a
new user account and try to reproduce the problem there and let us know
if the results.
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Also affects: unity
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Cha
Thanks for running apport. I'm not really familiar with debugging
problems like this, but hopefully there's enough information here for
someone more informed to see what's wrong.
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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When I try to use the Unity dash search feature to navigate to files and
folders, it is extremely slow. For example, if I hit the super button to
launch the search and then type "Pictures" to g
Thanks for your bug report. I'll package this against Unity, as I've
seen other bugs regarding the search feature packaged as such. Could you
please run the following command in a terminal to attach some system
information to this report: 'apport-collect 919801'.
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