Package: beagle Version: 0.3.9-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/beagled
Beagled eats memory because it has too many threads by default. On my system, a uniprocessor P4 with 2Gb of memory, I see 11 (count 'em 11!) beagled threads. Silliness! Each thread has 74Mb of unshared memory, so the total is about 800Mb. This may hurt overall system performance, and may even hurt beagled's performance. It's possible to get in situations where extra swapping happens because of all the copies of beagled. It's hard to imagine that: (a) My system can really make use of 11 threads, and (b) I really *want* 11 beagled threads banging away at once. Personally, if my system is busy, I'm perfectly happy for beagled to get a little behind. The work I'm doing is important. But, the results of beagled are only occasionally important. So, beagled should never be in a position of dominating the system. So, why so many threads? Overall, it seems that there should be fewer threads on smaller systems and more threads on bigger systems. I'd suggest the following algorithm for choosing the number of threads: min(1+(total_memory/140Mb), 1+number_of_cpus) This will guarantee that beagled will occupy no more than half of RAM (more or less), and will scale the number of threads with the number of CPUs. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages beagle depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii bash 3.2-6 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libavahi1.0-cil 0.6.19-4 CLI bindings for Avahi ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libchm1 2:0.40-1 library for dealing with Microsoft ii libexif12 0.6.17-1 library to parse EXIF files ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2.0-cil 2.24.1-4 CLI binding for GConf 2.24 ii libglade2.0-cil 2.12.9-1 CLI binding for the Glade librarie ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglib2.0-cil 2.12.9-1 CLI binding for the GLib utility l ii libgmime2.2a-cil 2.2.22-4 CLI binding for the MIME library ii libgnome-desktop-2-11 2.26.1-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-vfs2.0-cil 2.24.1-4 CLI binding for GnomeVFS 2.24 ii libgnome2.24-cil 2.24.1-4 CLI binding for GNOME 2.24 ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.15-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgsf0.0-cil 0.8-2 CLI bindings for libgsf ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.5-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtk2.0-cil 2.12.9-1 CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2 ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-15 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmono-cairo2.0-cil 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono Cairo library (for CLI 2.0) ii libmono-corlib2.0-cil 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono core library (for CLI 2.0) ii libmono-posix2.0-cil 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono.Posix library (for CLI 2.0) ii libmono-security2.0-ci 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono Security library (for CLI 2.0 ii libmono-sharpzip2.84-c 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono SharpZipLib library (for CLI ii libmono-sqlite2.0-cil 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono Sqlite library (for CLI 2.0) ii libmono-system-data2.0 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono System.Data Library (for CLI ii libmono-system-web2.0- 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono System.Web Library (for CLI 2 ii libmono-system2.0-cil 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono System libraries (for CLI 2.0 ii libmono0 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono JIT library ii libndesk-dbus-glib1.0- 0.4.1-2 CLI implementation of D-Bus (GLib ii libndesk-dbus1.0-cil 0.6.0-2 CLI implementation of D-Bus ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.38-1 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.17-2 SQLite 3 shared library ii libtaglib2.0-cil 2.0.3.2+dfsg-3 CLI library for accessing audio an ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-6.1 Windows metafile conversion librar ii libwv-1.2-3 1.2.4-2 Library for accessing Microsoft Wo ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-2.1 GNOME XML library ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii mono-runtime 2.4.2.3+dfsg-1 Mono runtime ii xdg-utils 1.0.2-6.1 desktop integration utilities from ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages beagle recommends: pn mono-gmcs <none> (no description available) ii poppler-utils 0.10.6-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii util-linux [schedutils] 2.15.1~rc1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages beagle suggests: pn beagle-backend-evolution <none> (no description available) ii gnumeric 1.9.9-1 spreadsheet application for GNOME pn icedove-beagle <none> (no description available) pn iceweasel-beagle <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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