[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 64326] Re: beagled-helper loads CPU

[Erik Meitner]

I have a similar situation to Eythian(above at 2006-10-28 22:32:25 UTC).
It happens always after a few minutes of ide time. Stops upon user imput
on keyboard or mouse.

Note CPU ussage increase is NOT accompanied by an increase in block device IO that indexing or database optimization,etc would cause. vmstat output during the transition:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0  82636  52508 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  334  960  4  2 94  0
 0  0  82636  52508 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  436 1041  4  3 93  0
 0  0  82636  52508 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  334  820  4  1 95  0
 0  0  82636  52508 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  455 1101  4  2 94  0
 0  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  335  844  4  1 95  0
 0  0  82636  52508 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  437 1145  6  2 92  0
 0  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  333  808  4  0 96  0
 1  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  435 1028 38  8 54  0
 1  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     4     0  353  719 66 12 22  0
 0  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  439 1014 39 10 51  0
 1  0  82636  52508 163252 440940    0    0     0     8  340  820 45 14 42  0
 1  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  461 1049 34  8 58  0
 2  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  335  775 63 16 21  0
 3  0  82636  52384 163252 440940    0    0     0     0  435  951 62  9 29  0

No lines were appended to these logs during this period :
~/.beagle/Log/current-Beagle 
~/.beagle/Log/current-BeagleExceptions
~/.beagle/Log/current-IndexHelper

Following some tips I found by googling I temporarily enabled extended attributes on the partition that gets indexed:
sudo mount /dev/hda2 -oremount,user_xattr
This seems to have stopped the unusual resource consumption by beagled-helper. See:
http://beagle-project.org/Enabling_Extended_Attributes

More correctly, it seems that beagled-helper is no longer run.

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beagled-helper loads CPU
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64326