Comment 7 for bug 718427

Manual adjustment isn't really a practical solution. It's nice to
know that
the problem seems to be triggered by individual large files, but in
order to
be really useful, recoll needs an algorithm that can handle that case.

On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:37:58 -0000, Alfagulf wrote:
> OK, I found this link which answered the memory usage problem:
>
> http://www.freelists.org/post/recoll-user/Resource-use-GNOME-integration,1
>
> Basically, I enabled logging and found the large file (About 5GB)
> which caused recollindex to use so much memory.
> After skipping the file, memory usage is reasonable now.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/718427
>
> Title:
> recoll slows system to a crawl
>
> Status in “recoll” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> 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)
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic
> 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
> 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
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