recoll slows system to a crawl
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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recoll (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: recoll
I have a lot of files, and recoll slows the system to a crawl when indexing. Opening up a terminal takes 8 seconds. Getting the "file" menu on a web browser requires you to hold the button down for 4 seconds. Basically, it's hammeringmy disk. CPU usage is not high, but the I/O is. This is a reasonably capable system: a 2-core CoreDuo, 4 gig of memory, a 7200 RPM disk. It ought not be slow.
Recoll should make use of ionice to reduce the I/O probability. And, if that's not enough, it ought to sleep in between operations that use the disk. It should be really really easy to make it a good citizen instead of a resource hog.
Basically, if it continues to annoy me while indexing, off it goes into the bit bucket.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: recoll (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 13 22:19:09 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: recoll
I should add that the .recoll directory is on a compressed btrfs file system. Don't know if that has anything to do with it, but even so, recoll needs to be a better citizen and not hog the disk.