Dne Ne 27. dubna 2014 14:02:10, John Andersen napsal(a):
On 04/27/2014 04:57 AM, Lars Kruczynski wrote:
I have to say, that for a non-beta release of KDE...it's quite perplexing that baloo made it through all the betas and ended up like it is now. If I can catch it doing buggy things within minutes of using it, it makes one start wondering if they really tried it very much with large 1-3 TB drives 100% full of files, and running torrents, BOINC, etc.
What are these betas you were referring to? I've been keeping up with the KDE4 channel and I never saw a single instance of any betas available that included Baloo.
Also, It would be nice if we could read the manual, (what manual!!!???), but not a shred of documentation came with baloo.
If you look into baloofilerc you will see that you can exclude file types, and directories from indexing. It seems that excluding huge binary files like iso files and entire directories that are in use by bittorrent would be the solution to your problem.
Remember there was a word of warning about the fact that it indexes your entire home directory unless you put in exclusions. In my case I excluded directories that contained my Virtual Machine disk image files.
That criticism notwithstanding, I am NOT seeing any huge disk IO or cpu loading issues, even as I recompile entire subsystems with many many files.
I think your issue is one of tuning.
For me, this is big regression. Latest Nepomuk from 4.12 worked by order of magnitude better. Recently, Nepomuk was indexing comparable amount of data (new install) and it was faster and not consuming so much resources. Baloo can make computer equipped by i7 CPU running 8x3.2 GHz and 16 GB RAM completely unusable! I know, that over 680 GB is much, but still, background service should never ever cause continuous lags. Software doing that is simply a crap. I wish indexing and things like autocompletion from address books in KMail (it required Nepomuk, so I think now it requires Baloo) etc., but what can I do? Let the computer run for whole week and not touch it in hope, that Baloo will finish its work? It's just a joke. Well written file indexer is supposed to work unnoticed on background. This is not well written software. Also, how can I check how much files are already indexed? Nepomuk showed amount of files, as well as percent of PIM data. Why does it came without better GUI? Seriously, I like KDE and I don't want only to complain, but why are KDE devs all the time breaking something? I don't understand the logic, when finally one get well working software and when it is OK, it is replaced by... ehm... sort of think like that... Similar with KMail and KOrganizer. They have much better features then Thunderbird or Evolution (in my humble opinion), but sometimes there are problems with Akonadi and unpleasant bugs. It is breaking the trust. Finally, I hope there will be soon some fix for Baloo... I need the computer for work, so I'm keeping it off... All the best, Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/