On my system, beagled uses up any and all RAM, up to 70% of my 512M. (The other 30% being used by other programs.) This basically makes my system unusable. The weird thing is, I intentionally shut down all other applications and let beagled run alone for 12 hours; it seems that during that time, it used only 20% of my RAM. As soon as I loaded Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin again, beagled's usage jumped up to its previous levels. Here's my emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-suspend2-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-suspend2-r6 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb / usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://toughguy.caltech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/m irrors/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo / ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --del ete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filte r=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi aim alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb dri dvd eds emboss encode esd exif fam firefox fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm gstreamer gtk gtk 2 hal iconv icq immqt ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg ldap libg++ mad matroska matrox midi mikmod mp3 mpeg m sn mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt 3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-f onts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" A LSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfl oat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="kbd keyb oard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915 vesa fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FL AGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Thanks for the bug but this is a known issue on beagle and the upstream is working on it mainly because of the lucent.Net (search engine) and mono. There are apps like tracker that is suppose to consume less cpu but it doesn't contain such features as beagle support. Wait for the next releases.
