https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 ------- Comment #1 from jan.sekal@volny.cz 2006-12-25 10:56 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=111031) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=111031&action=view) pdftotext consumes 100 ppc of cpu and starts without the permission of the user -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 ------- Comment #3 from jan.sekal@volny.cz 2006-12-26 07:00 MST ------- the output is jan 5079 0.0 0.1 2852 708 pts/1 R+ 14:56 0:00 grep pdftext sorry, being angry (Your screenshots are totally useless) is totally useless, i am a simple user :) i hope it is clear accordingly, that i do not know what "parent process" is -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 ------- Comment #5 from jan.sekal@volny.cz 2006-12-26 11:03 MST ------- (In reply to comment #4)

Just my two cents -- this smells like beagle is indexing a lot of pdf's:

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find|grep beagle|xargs rpm -qp --requires|grep pdf xpdf-tools rpm -qf `which pdftotext` xpdf-tools-3.01-48

:) I am a poor user, these lines seem to me like something i should put into commandline, but I wont try it until i know what it does

(I make a point of uninstalling beagle on all my machines)

i think the result of our interaction should be that this program opens a message box telling what is going on and this message box should disappear first after the work is done.. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 ------- Comment #7 from jan.sekal@volny.cz 2006-12-26 11:30 MST ------- (In reply to comment #6)

I was just adding evidence of my suspicion that beagle indexing was responsible for running pdftotext -- the commands just show that beagle requires xpdf-tools and that pdftotext is a part of xpdf-tools, nothing more. If you do not use beagle (and do not use gnome), the consensus on mailing lists and irc is to uninstall beagle, and every package that requires it.

(I am sure that the people the bug is assigned to would still like to see the information they requested -- which will likely show that beagle is indeed the package which is responsible for running pdftotext.)

no, i use kde, thanks for this tip -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 ------- Comment #9 from jan.sekal@volny.cz 2006-12-27 04:06 MST ------- (In reply to comment #8)

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the output is jan 5079 0.0 0.1 2852 708 pts/1 R+ 14:56 0:00 grep pdftext

You should of course run this command line when you experience pdftext running, calling it at other times doesn't help. ;-)

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i hope it is clear accordingly, that i do not know what "parent process" is

Either run "pstree" in a console or as it seems that you like ksysguard, check the "Tree" checkbox in there and look at the line above the "pdftext" entry.

ok, thanks, the tree checkbox is a cool tool after that three experiences with pdftotext (and killing it every time) i did not notice it any start up of pdftotext, perhaps supposed beagle gave it up.. it seem like i am a little bit paranoiac and watching ksysguard all the time, but i have a notebook, and 100 % CPU usage is clearly heard, as the fan starts cooling! (in addition to low performace) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 ------- Comment #11 from jan.sekal@volny.cz 2007-01-08 06:06 MST ------- (In reply to comment #10)

BNC-team, can you take care of this bug? This is not a real usability issue.

Jan, I've reassigned the bug and your need-info check was deleted. Should you provide some additional information?

no, I have encountered this problem three times (each time i killed this process using ksysguard) - and after that pdftotext have not started up. I, as a user, would suggest, that if such a CPU demanding system task starts, suse should give me a message like this: "system is now going to eat 100 % CPU for ten minutes" or "system is now going to eat 100 % CPU, depending on your RAM and CPU it can take a longer time - in this time the computer will be less responsive." or something like that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230738 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|jan.sekal@volny.cz | Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Comment #13 from mhorvath@novell.com 2007-01-19 01:45 MST ------- Please reopen the bug if you can provide the needed information, thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.