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Bug 624748 - excessive memory usage by ssindex when indexing large spreadsheets
excessive memory usage by ssindex when indexing large spreadsheets
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: General
0.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: tracker-general
Jamie McCracken
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-19 15:29 UTC by Charlie Kravetz
Modified: 2010-07-19 15:39 UTC
See Also:
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Description Charlie Kravetz 2010-07-19 15:29:52 UTC 
This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/374153

It has also been reported to gnumeric as:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581999

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
tracker:
  Installed: 0.6.93-0ubuntu1
gnumeric:
  Installed: 1.8.4-3ubuntu2

Tracker uses ssindex (from the gnumeric package) to index spreadsheet files (.csv, .xls etc...)

When a spreadsheet file is large (>50 mb), the ssindex process uses at least 5 times that amount of memory to index the file.

This results in a slow, un-responsive system, requiring the ssindex process to be killed.

I have had to prevent tracker from starting up, as excluding spreadsheet files in the index preferences doesn't seem to work either.
Comment 1 Aleksander Morgado 2010-07-19 15:39:53 UTC 
We're not using ssindex in tracker 0.8 (stable) or 0.9 (unstable), so will mark this one as obsolete.