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tomsk

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Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 198

baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

Hello, this never happened to me, I use KDE desktop on Arch Linux about 5 months now, everything was ok, but suddenly before few days everytime when I start my PC process called baloo_file_extractor will start and it consume 1 CPU core and 1 GB+ of RAM, this never happened to me before, why it is happening? And what is that process good for? I have to kill it everytime.

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Thank you

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Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 631

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Baloo

tomsk

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Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 198

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

Thanks and why it suddenly started launching at start of OS? Isn't it bug?

Last edited by tomsk (2020-03-14 17:55:30)

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Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 631

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

Not a bug, you pulled it in as a dependency with something you installed.

tomsk

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Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 198

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

So if I disable it, it means that I won't be able to search for files in Dolphin for example?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,303

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

Did you recently download a huge file or done some big builds in your home dir like compiling chromium/the kernel or so?  Check with

balooctl status
balooctl monitor

and the like whihc file is busy on the index and maybe use system settings to exclude a specific folder or

balooctl clear $FILE

to exclude certain files.

mr.robotics

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Registered: 2023-11-01

Posts: 1

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

I downloaded some leaked database which was around some 4 gigs, to extract that I installed "p7zip" and extracted the file, then the same happened to me.
try this it'll work

 balooctl suspend
 balooctl disable

SkyJumper409

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Registered: 2024-11-19

Posts: 1

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

Hi, I also have Issues but I have no idea what files might be causing the issues I'm having.
Is it possible to figure out *what files* are being indexed, not just *that* files are being indexed?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,303

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

the posted monitor command should give you info on which file is being worked on. replace balooctl with balooctl6 however as of the plasma 6 release.

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

Posts: 185

Re: baloo_file_extractor consume 1 CPU core and lot of RAM

You'll likely find most of the time it doesn't consume those resources, I've on the odd occasion had it do the same for me, killing it and restarting it via the balooctl6 command usually resolves it.

Yes, it is what KDE and Dolphin uses to search for files and their content.

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