Hi everyone, After today’s update, baloo is once again acting up, taking up all CPU resources. I tried balooctl disable, balooctl suspend, balooctl purge and the status says it isn’t running but top shows it running. I can’t work on my computer as it slowed down to a crawl. Search file is turned …

Good choice. Search still works just fine. Baloo, Discover, and the degree in pretzel logic that is required to understand the System Settings are my only complaints with Plasma. Luckily, the first 2 can be nuked and the last one is getting better with each release.

The important thing is to make sure you have only basic indexing=true as that is what keeps it from indexing contents

Will do it now. That damn thing has been running 34 hours straight and still locks up my resources. What a piece of ^$#*&@%!! Can you tell me where~/.config/baloofilerc is? I turned on show hidden file and still can’t see it. Thanks

Enable hidden files and look in your home folder.

[image] 33Nicolas: Can you tell me where~/.config/baloofilerc is? ~ is your home directory. So there should be a .config in your home directory. [image] 33Nicolas: That damn thing has been running 34 hours straight and still locks up my resources. Umm…if you didn’t make the change in…

Thanks, I can find it now. Cheers!

[image] Baloo is The Responsible of Unresponsivenes Plasma The first thing I do after installing Plasma: balooctl suspend balooctl disable balooctl purge balooctl status

After you make that change to the file, you should suspend and purge. After making sure it is really stopped(which may take a few minutes) then start it again. Now it should be go much faster since it is only indexing file names. You should be able to see this with balooctl monitor

Thanks. I’m letting run its course, however long it does. Then I’ll look for the config file. can’t find it now for some reason. After that, I’ll follow your instructions. I really appreciate your help. I went on the wikis but didn’t find the answer.

[image] 33Nicolas: Thanks. I’m letting run its course, however long it does. OK but after you change the config file you are going to delete the index you are creating…

I’m starting to wonder if after letting baloo run for hours and it doesn’t work, do a fresh install and follow your procedure? In the meantime, I’ll let it do what it needs to do. Sounds like it will take the weekend.

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Baloo eating resources, won't stop, purge, or anything

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Kresimir March 19, 2022, 1:42pm 17