processes started by beagle use 100% cpu

i can confirm this behaviour. beagled should probably launch the helpers with a high nice value...

In my computer, beagled grabs 95% of the processor and just stays there forever; the processor speed jumps maxes up, and the notebook flies through the battery in no time. "pdf2text" does not show in top, though; I believe it is the very beagled that's in fault.

By the way, it does grab 95% of the processor, but the computer remains perfectly usable all the time, the processor fan whining and the battery gauge dropping.

I just tried this and it worked: start beagled with --deny-backend EvolutionMail.

No being able to have beagled indexing my email is pure crap :\ but at least it now goes through all my other files.

I am using ubuntu dapper beta and since the kernal update i seem to be getting problems with intense disk and swap file activity - seems to triggered by starting an app that doesn't actually work properly - though this may not be the case in all situations

looking at system monitor there is a process called mono running 1.8gig of ram - system stabilises a bit after it loads into memory) - the 'arguments' heading reads something like "beagled-helper --debug /usr/lib/beagle/indexHelper.exe"

is it odd that it refers to an .exe file?

Just installed the 0.2.6-1ubuntu4 update that became available earlier today on a Dapper Beta system and I have never had any problems with beagled until now. After installing the update (and re-enabling beagle -- for some reason it was disabled and not running, now I realize why) I noticed my system was significantly slower. I checked my CPU usage and it was constantly at 95 - 100%! The INSTANT I hard kill the beagled process, it drops back down to about 7 - 10%. For now, beagle is remaining disabled on my system until this major bug is fixed.

This is a dupe of #34495, which the reporter says is fixed in Edgy and I cannot reproduce.
Closing the bug.

This is NOT fixed. Every day, beagled-helper comes on and consumes 100% of my CPU for HOURS. I'm not sure it ever finishes, since I have to kill it.

Note: I'm experiencing this problem after upgrading to Edgy from Dapper. I never had this problem on Dapper.

As I write, beagled-helper has been hogging the CPU for 2+ hours. It doesn't slow down the system much, but the fan has been blasting since the thing started. The System Monitor shows that beagled-helper is Sleeping, but nevertheless using 80% of the CPU.

I'm experiencing this problem also, since upgrading from dapper to edgy. I have to kill -9 the beagled-helper process to get rid of it, and it comes back later unless beagle is shutdown.

Just killed beagled-helper off, like previous mentions, was consuming 100% cpu and slowing everything else down.

I do have 20 or 30 PDF's in the system, and a good 600Gb of disk space with several hundred thousand files, probably not helping.