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

[Joe Shaw]

Hey everyone, I'm the upstream Beagle maintainer.  There are a few
different issues in this bug:

* Excessive CPU usage in beagled-helper on certain files (.jar, .js, .m
being the main ones):  This is a bug in the freedesktop.org xdgmime
implementation which Beagle uses.  It was fixed in the GTK+ copy of this
code, which we now consider to be the "canonical" upstream release.  We
incorporated the fixes into Beagle 0.2.10, which was released on 18
September.

* 100% CPU usage in beagled or beagled-helper when the screensaver is
active: This is not a bug.  This is by design.  The idea is that when
you are not using your computer, Beagle can your data index as fast as
possible and not worry about the impact on your user experience because,
again, you're not using the machine interactively.  This does not happen
when you are on battery, however, so if you have a laptop you can test
this by unplugging it from the wall and seeing if the CPU usage
continues.  (Give it a couple of seconds to finish indexing the file
it's working on, though.)

* There are other instances where certain types of files (often MS
PowerPoint documents) can cause 100% CPU utilization.  There have been
fixes for problems like these in newer releases, the latest of which is
0.2.12.  Please pester your packagers to update to the latest code.

Any other instances where beagled or beagled-helper peg the CPU for
extended periods of time is a bug.  I don't regularly track bugs on
Launchpad (nor do I in the Red Hat bugzilla, or any other vendor bug
tracker), so filing them upstream in the GNOME Bugzilla is the best way
to get the attention of not only me, but the other Beagle developers.

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