[Bug 481299] New: Yast Scanner Model and Driver Devours system resources at the expense of basic O/S
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 Summary: Yast Scanner Model and Driver Devours system resources at the expense of basic O/S Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1 Firefox/3.0.6 I attached a Cannon USB scanner and went to Yast>Hardware>Scanner to configure it. This Yast Model consumes vast system resources and 10% mac CPU and as Much Physical RAM as it want to constrict the driver database. Auto detection took over 2 Minutes. Once the scanner Model is auto found I edited the selection to ensure the most appropriate selection - again System Resources were swallowed up like nothing on earth. This process took over 2 Minutes Once the List of Drivers were displayed I entered a search string which again started to devour more resources again taking over two minutes. Once Again selecting the "Show Complete List" took over 3 mins and consumed more resources. My PC is a Processor (CPU): AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ Speed: 2,410.96 MHz Cores: 2 with Total memory (RAM): 1.7 GB Free memory: 696.9 MB (+ 412.2 MB Caches) Free swap: 10.0 GB The Free memory amount started at 980MB and this small yast program has reduced it to a current 696.9MB and is dropping all the time Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Auto detect any USB Scanner and monitor sysinfo in Konqueror as above 2. 3. Actual Results: Totally unacceptable and unrestrained use of system resources and inordinate wait times - we must and can do much better with this module! Expected Results: I am sure we dont need 1 Yast module to be 1 able to access seemingly unrestricted resources and I am sure we can either index the data base better to cut down searches and possibly consider using a bubble sort rather than straight index sort. The PC has been processing "Show complete List for over 5 minutes now and available RAM has dropped to 580MB and going down -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c1 Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au Severity|Normal |Major --- Comment #1 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-02 22:25:54 MST --- The PC I was working on for the above test - shut down as CPU and RAM reached over 60C. The CPU temp initiated total shutdown of PC, which it has never done before, as it was the result of just adding and configuring a USB scanner. Adjusting Priority! I am always happy to provide any logs in the event you are unable to duplicate the above. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 Martin Vidner <mvidner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |jsmeix@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c2 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsmeix@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2009-03-12 08:58:09 MST --- It works well on my 3 GHZ dual core workstation with 500 MB RAM. Only creating the database can take some seconds (e.g. 20 seconds) but all the rest works with reasonable speed for me. Therefore it is no issue in the YCP code of the scanner module but perhaps something in the YaST base system (or even at a lower level). -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c3 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |jsmeix@novell.com Info Provider| |alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au --- Comment #3 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2009-03-12 09:06:44 MST --- Have a look at bug #442173 which describes a related issue. But the issue in this bug here is different because here for the user almost every step takes minutes. Scott Couston, to verify if it is perhaps a YaST GUI issue, run it in text-only mode. As root call yast scanner and test if it works reasonable fast in text-only mode. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c4 --- Comment #4 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-17 02:24:41 MST --- No problem I will reply from today +7 My apologies for my 2 weeks absence, I got flooded out in my region and am only getting things slowly back together. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c5 Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au | --- Comment #5 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-17 19:41:30 MST --- I re-ran test. I logged out of GUI session and chose to login via console. I logged in as root no problems - I received the "have lots of fun" welcome. I entered Yast2 - deleted the current entry>Exit Yast2>Hardware>Scanner>Default Auto detect took less than 2 seconds! A 'Search' string only took 3 seconds max The 'Show All' took less than 3 seconds Text based Yast2 - unreal response Re-enter KWIN I just clicked on -Show All" and I have made a cup of coffee and had 2 smokes and come back to complete this bug and its sill in the process of 'Show All" Appear from the grab for all resources and the enormity of the task that just happens to be running there appears there in NO error level in exceeded time. Thats the biggest problem with Yast - If ANY action - no matter the cause - the user cannot terminate the process and there is no error level time exceeded and the O/S kill continue to devote resources until the process can be fulfilled. Many Yast Processes can take a very very long time if they cannot (for any reason) complete the task, however this one is like no other given times in initial comment. Here the Abort key does nothing as its only usage is to exit out of any Yast process without saving the changes. As a conventional user the only option now is to shut down/restart the PC which will now take a good 3 minutes to do. Can I help be providing ANY log information ?????? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User mantel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c6 Hubert Mantel <mantel@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |mantel@novell.com Info Provider| |alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au --- Comment #6 from Hubert Mantel <mantel@novell.com> 2009-03-23 08:57:07 MST --- Since things work fine in text mode this seems to be a problem with the graphical UI. Scott, could you please provide the YaST logs so we can investigate closer? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c7 --- Comment #7 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-23 15:53:18 MST --- Sure can provide YAST2 Logs, however please give me a few days to trash my test PC - its currently running gnome and the error is not present under Yast in Gnome. I will trash test PC and install KDE in both 11.0 and 11.1 for you. Leave on Needinfo for date plus 7 -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c8 --- Comment #8 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2009-03-24 07:44:44 MST --- FYI: Regarding the bad side-effect which is mentioned in comment #5 that "Abort key does nothing" compare https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442173#c4 -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User mantel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c9 --- Comment #9 from Hubert Mantel <mantel@novell.com> 2009-03-24 08:35:48 MST --- Just to gather some more data points: Scott, Johannes, is there a difference when using gnome, kde3 or kde4? Maybe we are seeing an issue in qt here... -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c10 --- Comment #10 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-24 14:53:26 MST --- Yes Gnome on Version 11.0 Yast runs light lightening, just a bit faster than text Yast. I can provide logs and details of V11.0 KDE and 11.1 KDE in due course - cannot answer that 11.1 KDE is also very slow atm - Test was done on 11.0 KDE. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c11 --- Comment #11 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-24 15:37:47 MST --- BTW This is another reason why case in point of Bug 442475 needs action rather than just the perpetual INVALID close. If ' Skip Refresh can work well why does the Cancel button become useless? I believe this issue is purely related to KDE 4.x X Windows Manager as this problem was not evident in KDE 3.5,Not Evident in text, Not evident in V11.0 Gnome, and not evident in 11.1 in Gmome. I have noted the massive amount of Extra Resources that KDE4.n requires to support ALL X Windows Function which I am sure you have noticed before in monitoring both 11.0 and 11.1 KDE - which demands huge resources no matter what application is opened and running - not only Yast -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c12 --- Comment #12 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-25 16:12:09 MST --- The issue has major implication on Bug 442475 to fix the inability to halt ANY YAST Application using the ABORT function as it was useless when ANY Yast application misbehaves - It was closed as wontfix as I was told in no uncertain terms that it was not possible for the ABORT button to stop any YAST application that misbehaves - Bug 442475 has implications to case in point on all other bug reports on misbehaving YAST bugs as well as this one. Yast logs in a few hours of date -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c13 --- Comment #13 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-25 17:37:05 MST --- Created an attachment (id=282090) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=282090) startup log -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c14 --- Comment #14 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-25 17:37:43 MST --- Created an attachment (id=282091) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=282091) system log -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c15 Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au | --- Comment #15 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-25 17:38:52 MST --- Created an attachment (id=282092) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=282092) Yast2 logs -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c18 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au --- Comment #18 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-03-31 07:54:47 MDT --- 2009-03-26 09:34:19 <1> linux-ncbv(6392) [YCP] Scanner.ycp:327 Executing bash commandline: /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_scanner_database YCP
/var/lib/YaST2/scanner_database.ycp 2009-03-26 09:34:40 <1> linux-ncbv(6392) [YCP] Scanner.ycp:327 Executing bash commandline: /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/determine_active_scanners YCP /var/lib/YaST2/active_scanners.ycp
This takes 21 seconds; whole run of yast2-scanner takes c.a. 30 seconds, at most 50 seconds (there is a 20-second gap in the log before another module is started); this is tne only run of the scanner module which I found in the logs Would it be possible to get logs (ideally with Y2DEBUG=1 environment variable) showing that any operation really takes at least minutes? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c19 --- Comment #19 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2009-03-31 09:04:31 MDT --- create_scanner_database takes 21 seconds for the reporter exactly as I wrote in comment #2 - just have a look. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c20 Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au | --- Comment #20 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-03-31 15:59:44 MDT --- How can I help with logs on the reported X64 PC? Have you also tried inserting new scanner USB device (or any other USB device for that matter) in a different Bus slot in PC and the booting it? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c21 Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |alpha096@virginbroadband.co | |m.au --- Comment #21 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@novell.com> 2009-04-01 04:20:10 MDT --- Scott, can you please attach logs from a run with all those minute-long delays? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481299#c22 --- Comment #22 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-04-01 08:11:23 MDT --- I can do that - give me +5 days to trash my Test PC and install and provide logs. If I get time I will do the same for 11.1 -I will leave bug at 11.0, but provide logs for 11.1 FYI - that is unless you want this difference in version in 2 separate bugs - If so I can clone. Leave on NEEDINFO -- 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.
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