Hi,
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:33 -0400, D Bera wrote:
> > I'm using beagle 0.2.4 from Debian/Sid. Although the last version hasn't
> > reached Debian yet, I wanted to ask about memory usage. Right now,
> > beagled is using 55+ of all the memory (I have 1.5GB total). That seems
> > like a lot, and as it's causing my computer to choke (specially with
> > some CPU spikes caused by beagle-helper).
> >
> > As memory usage as gotten better with time, I wanted to ask the hackers
> > whether this is to be expected. I deleted /.beagle just to make sure I
> > was starting w/ a clean slate, but the problem remains (although not all
> > the files/emails have been indexed at this point).
>
> Hi
> The memory usage would be high during initial indexing. A lot of
> work involving scanning files/directories and parsing/indexing the
> contents happens during this stage and its beagle needs quite a bit of
> resources. But I should say, resource consumption is improving with
> each subsequent release. Also, using more recent mono releases can
> help with the memory utilization. Once the initial indexing is done,
> you can expect a quiet beagle
>
Yes. I've been using beagle since 0.0.7 or so I know how much it has
improved.
> That said, just curious to know what figures are you seeing for the
> memory usage of beagle ? Both the output as reported by top and free.
>
top - 18:16:27 up 5:32, 2 users, load average: 0.61, 0.94, 1.02
Tasks: 2 total, 0 running, 2 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 59.0% us, 8.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 24.3% id, 7.7% wa, 0.3% hi,
0.0% si
Mem: 1554852k total, 1474592k used, 80260k free, 28104k buffers
Swap: 3132664k total, 833812k used, 2298852k free, 446348k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3612 cmoffat 15 0 77728 39m 8220 S 19.0 2.6 20:46.95
beagled-helper
3417 cmoffat 16 0 1361m 657m 10m S 7.3 43.3 5:58.61 beagled
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 1554852 1493660 61192 0 29516
452240
-/+ buffers/cache: 1011904 542948
Swap: 3132664 833812 2298852
beagle-helper spikes up to 40/60 % of CPU, but beagled is using 40/60 of
my memory pretty much all of the time (but as you say, it probably will
go down when the main indexing is over).
Carlos
> - dBera
>
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> -----------------------------------------------------
> Debajyoti Bera @ http://dbera.blogspot.com
> beagle / KDE fan
> Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user
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