I can reproduce this where Evolution email is being indexed. With debug logging enabled I see:
top - 10:00:57 up 2:41, 4 users, load average: 1.55, 1.30, 1.21 Tasks: 172 total, 1 running, 171 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 3.3%us, 1.0%sy, 74.8%ni, 19.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 3.3%us, 0.7%sy, 22.6%ni, 73.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2061880k total, 2033472k used, 28408k free, 364756k buffers Swap: 4000176k total, 0k used, 4000176k free, 501588k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10127 tj 39 19 138m 12m 2668 S 99 0.6 146:20.61 trackerd 9926 root 20 0 195m 59m 18m S 2 2.9 3:02.17 Xorg 10051 tj 20 0 223m 16m 3852 S 1 0.8 0:25.72 pulseaudio
With debug logging (Verbosity=3) enabled the 100% CPU usage is caused by:
Scanning summary file /home/tj/.evolution/mail/imap/tjworld.net@pella/folders/Subscribed Lists/subfolders/video4linux/summary for junk summary.version = 13 summary.flags = 1 summary.nextuid = 1 summary.time = 0 summary.count = 5265 summary.Unread = 50 summary.deleted = 5173 summary.junk = 0 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=9 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=13 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=28 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=30 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=48 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=50 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=54 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=55 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=56 deleting email email://1172067579.27670.2@hephaestion/Subscribed Lists/video4linux;uid=57
... and it goes on and on.
I can reproduce this where Evolution email is being indexed. With debug logging enabled I see:
top - 10:00:57 up 2:41, 4 users, load average: 1.55, 1.30, 1.21
Tasks: 172 total, 1 running, 171 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 3.3%us, 1.0%sy, 74.8%ni, 19.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 3.3%us, 0.7%sy, 22.6%ni, 73.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2061880k total, 2033472k used, 28408k free, 364756k buffers
Swap: 4000176k total, 0k used, 4000176k free, 501588k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
10127 tj 39 19 138m 12m 2668 S 99 0.6 146:20.61 trackerd
9926 root 20 0 195m 59m 18m S 2 2.9 3:02.17 Xorg
10051 tj 20 0 223m 16m 3852 S 1 0.8 0:25.72 pulseaudio
With debug logging (Verbosity=3) enabled the 100% CPU usage is caused by:
Scanning summary file /home/tj/ .evolution/ mail/imap/ tjworld. net@pella/ folders/ Subscribed Lists/subfolder s/video4linux/ summary for junk /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 9 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 13 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 28 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 30 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 48 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 50 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 54 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 55 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 56 /1172067579. 27670.2@ hephaestion/ Subscribed Lists/video4lin ux;uid= 57
summary.version = 13
summary.flags = 1
summary.nextuid = 1
summary.time = 0
summary.count = 5265
summary.Unread = 50
summary.deleted = 5173
summary.junk = 0
deleting email email:/
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deleting email email:/
deleting email email:/
... and it goes on and on.