Automatic collection rebuilds make system completely unusable for minutes or hours without warning
Bug #58716 reported by
Dave Suffling
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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amarok (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Amarok appears to automatically rebuild it's collection periodically. Once this process is started, it is *extremely* difficult to stop, and all other work becomes impossible (because the hard disk is completely occupied, even running 'ps' from a non-X VT takes up to half a minute.)
The amarokcollectio---? process (which is responsible for this) has a nice value of '0'. Even increased, the problem persists because of the hard disk access issue.
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When Amarok rebuilds its collection it eats all my memory and my system becomes unusuable. I didn't wait a half hour to see if it will recover, I pressed after a few minutes the reset button. Here is a output from top just close before killing amarok, the memory usage of the amarokcollection programm will constantly go higher and higher.
top - 11:00:49 up 25 min, 2 users, load average: 1.12, 0.53, 0.40
Tasks: 114 total, 2 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 84.4%us, 15.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1034908k total, 1005156k used, 29752k free, 56756k buffers
Swap: 465844k total, 240k used, 465604k free, 363448k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7850 lutz 25 0 376m 351m 13m R 94.9 34.8 0:14.67 amarokcollectio
7829 lutz 15 0 135m 40m 26m S 4.3 4.0 0:09.06 amarokapp
3896 root 15 0 294m 15m 8468 S 0.7 1.5 0:24.26 Xorg