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on startup of my laptop (with 8GB RAM) it takes minutes until it is useable. With "top" I saw that the wait percentage is about 70 %. I saw the process baloo_file_extr consuming some CPU, and it was listed with consuming about 200 GB (!!!) of virtual RAM. The hard-disk light was permanently on, so this matches. baloo seems to be some file indexing app for kde, but in Ubuntu we are using Gnome, aren't we?

  • How is that even possible?
  • can I safely disable it?
  • howto disable?
karsten
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The command to disable Baloo on my Ubuntu 20.04 OS is:

balooctl disable

To verify its enable/disable status

balooctl status

To see the percent CPU time baloo, and other applications, are consuming enter this command when your computer slows:

LINES=20 top -b -n 2 -d .5 -w
Stephen
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Yes true its file indexing and search tool/framework (basically daemon) for KDE .

You can disable , suspend or check status it using the following command balooctl -option For myself , using 20.04LTS Xubuntu , balooctl disable worked better than suspend option .

Preet Govind
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To disable baloo: Open $HOME/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc and change the option 'Indexing-Enabled=true' to 'Indexing-Enabled=false'

karsten
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