#baloo

2025-05-21

So #KDE filemanager #dolphin doesn't search through symbolic links and I had already spent about a year or so cursing #baloo whereas it worked fine on my laptop.
I had to get #fstab bind mounts to mount specific directories from another drive onto my home directory. Everything worked!

Now using #zfs meant I had to force the correct order of mounting else I have empty directories.

fstab's #systemd option - x-systemd.after=datapool.mount came to rescue and everything works again.

#homelab

2025-05-02

Creo que lo del aumento del tamaño de la caché de disco es por haber activado #Baloo. En cualquier caso pésimo trabajo por parte de Linux al liberar memoria para que la usen procesos que la necesiten. #Kswapd tarda mucho. Es más rápido y efectivo indicarle a Linux que escriba todo a disco y libere dicha memoria: sudo bash -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches".

No quiero swap con un SSD. Gracias. El trasiego («thrashing» en inglés) gratuito no me entusiasma.

Con la cantidad de RAM disponible hoy día el uso de swap sólo retrasa lo inevitable: matar procesos o aumentar la RAM.

2025-04-29

Question to the #KDE #Plasma developers out there: Did anyone ever think about building #OCR into the file indexer? I would love to be able to find screenshots based on the text they contain 😅

I found a thread on Discuss but no-one ever replied to it:

discuss.kde.org/t/does-baloo-s

#Baloo #ComputerVision

2025-04-13

A #desktopenvironment has to work properly out of the box.

If it includes cpu and storage killers like #baloo, as the desktop environment #KDE does, then it is a k.o. criteria. Then you shouldn't use it.

Dear people from KDE: please remove baloo from KDE for the time being. It's not an essential feature, and it only causes problems atm.

You can fix it, but you shouldn't include it in this broken state in "normal" releases.

2025-04-13

Ich glaube ich muss #KDE wieder löschen/deinstallieren von meinem Laptop. Das ist ja furchtbar, wie viel CPU-Leistung und Speicherplatz #baloo braucht?!?!

Mehrere Gigabyte Speicherplatz und 100% CPU-Auslastung für >15 Minuten, der Lüfter lief auf Hochtouren.

Und das nur zum Dateien indexieren und durchsuchbar machen.

Und baloo alleine entfernen geht irgendwie nicht, weil das zur KDE desktop environment offenbar dazugehört?!

Dann doch lieber #Gnome.

Jelle De Loeckerskerit@elevenways.be
2025-02-07

I've been using KDE Plasma for a few weeks now (because for some reason my framerate in Gnome Shell keeps getting worse with each new version. Yes, so bad it's noticeable)

And seriously: what the hell is baloo_file_extractor doing? It's just always there, wasting on average 20% of CPU. Extracting/indexing what? I have no idea.

The File Search settings tab claims the file index is "96% complete", but that it's also "Not Running", while `balooctl6 status` confirms it *is* running.

I also have no idea if this thing has sane defaults, or if I should add paths like ~/.cache, ~/.thunderbird, ~/.gradle, ... to the excluded folders. I have no idea, all I know is that I did do that and it made no difference :blobcatshrug:

#rant #kde #baloo

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Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.

"The man’s cub - the man’s cub?" he said. "I speak for the man’s cub. There is no harm in a man’s cub."

- Rudyard Kipling, “The Jungle Book”

#BookWormSat #RudyardKipling #JungleBook #Baloo #Literature #Animal #Bear

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2024-11-14

"The man's cub - the man's cub?" [Baloo the Bear] said. "I speak for the man’s cub. There is no harm in a man's cub. I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others. I myself will teach him."
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
🎨 M. & E. Detmold

#BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting #BookChatWeekly #Literature #RudyardKipling #JungleBook #Baloo #Animal #Bear

Baloo the Bear, as illustrated by M. & E. Detmold
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2024-10-24

@T_X In my case the cold storage are HDDs with archived data that are offline and only fetched when needed.
I am thinking about ways to be able to search contents of these drives without needing to connect them.

I am wondering if maybe Baloo could do this - I've defined unique mountpoints for each archival drive so I guess if I index them, I should be able to use something like KFind to search the index and show me files that are on the offfline drives?

Elias Probsteliasp
2024-09-30

@hoergen not exposed as button on the desktop, but the work on user session units for all components and apps lays the groundwork for this kind of prioritization, where certain tasks will only get resources if they aren't needed by any other etc.,
This allows for foreground tasks like to be always snappy while background tasks like only get what's left over etc.

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