Hi,
I spot weird behaviour of update media daemon. In web-admin->Files & Media -> Media Files Sync I have unticked media update daemon, but after few rebots I still notice it taking cpu:
Quote- 10:49:10 up 9:29, 1 user, load average: 1.55, 2.24, 2.70
Tasks: 252 total, 1 running, 251 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 14.2%us, 15.6%sy, 16.7%ni, 52.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1815860k total, 1765340k used, 50520k free, 343768k buffers
Swap: 1959888k total, 37992k used, 1921896k free, 521008k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4728 root 34 19 78460 29m 6352 S 42 1.7 1:48.56 UpdateMedia
2507 root 15 0 112m 49m 6208 S 20 2.8 125:02.15 motion
3043 root 25 0 59496 5656 4004 S 11 0.3 49:56.44 Generic_Serial_
2800 root 20 0 63000 8356 4052 S 10 0.5 51:58.55 Generic_Serial_
3464 root 25 0 51236 5420 3876 S 1 0.3 4:33.17 Generic_Serial_
4559 root 19 0 72772 24m 11m S 0 1.4 21:00.51 Photo_Screen_Sa
5129 root 15 0 10284 2712 1980 S 0 0.1 1:54.28 smbd
Anyone with more insight ? Is tick on web-admin not working ?
Can Media Update Daemon be run on daily basis (at night) ?
Thanks in advance,
regards,
Bulek.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year for everyone...
I've also noticed this. I think the daemon is restarted at boot time, regardless of the setting.
Maybe a bug?
br,
sambuca
/me thinks it is annoying that it only sleeps for 2 minutes...
This has nothing to do with development, please post in the appropriate sections of the forum.
tail the update media daemon log file, then check/uncheck the box. It definitely works, so you should see the logging activity obviously start and stop when you do this. Don't forget that if you manually run a sync this will start a new process that will appear in top until it has finished its scan...
A mod should move this thread into Users...
I have an observation on this topic. I added a USB disk with a windows file format NTFS. I also saw a high CPU usage even with the daemon disabled. it was looking on the driver every few minutes. After removing the drive and deleting the windows partition I added the disk again. got it back to work and formatted it in linux as described in the wiki. See tutorials.
I do not see the high usage of my CPU. I do not know exactly why this is and cannot do more testing since I needed the drive for my files. Maybe something to test if you see this happening on your system.
Sorry about coming back to this post but since today I have a strange behavior again on my USB disk. I am not sure when it starts but suddenly my CPU is completely used. It is impossible to play any media from then. If I remove the USB drive the CPU goes down to the normal value again. I do not see a process that is using a huge amount of CPU power in the performance tool on the KDE desktop.
more people that have seen this behavior before
Don't do things like that from the desktop.
Use a shell from a remote PC (eg download PuTTY) and run "top". I till immediately tell you which process is consuming CPU
Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it and I do not see anything consuming high amounts of CPU. But still didn´t solve my issues of being unable to normally play any media. I have removed a disk from another USB disk I found and add it inside the pc. Since the issue stopped when I remove the USB drive I hope it is gone.