Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 218939
Beagled constantly consuming 100% of CPU
Last modified: 2008-05-06 13:08:53 EDT
Description of problem: The "beagled" process constantly consumes 100% of CPU, albeit during idle periods. The CPU/disk activity never never ends. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): beagle-0.2.10-7.fc6 How reproducible: Always Additional info: There is extensive talk about this issue on Launchpad (Ubuntu), and it appears at least some problems related to high CPU usage are solved in later versions of Beagle (>0.2.12). It would be good to get this update in Fedora and see if it fixes the problem.
Link to discussion on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/beagle/+bug/64326
There is already an 0.2.13 update out (in updates-testing). Does it fix the issue?
Today I updated beagle to version beagle-0.2.13-1.fc6 and after a few minutes, beagle-helper started consuming 100% of my CPU time. I don't recall which version of beagle I had before, but it didn't constantly produce 100% cpu load. Also, the beagle-status command seems to hang. If you need more information, let me know and I'll try to help.
I'll confirm that the latest update to beagle causes beagle-helper to chew up the cpu's. After games such as sauerbraten and pinball were stalling since 12/12 update, checked system-monitor and confirmed cpu problem. Removed beagle and cpu usage returns to normal and no further stalling.
beagled and beagled-helper regularly just consume all of my CPU. I'm going to remove/disable these fellas...
Created attachment 144528 [details] System monitor screendump showing beagled CPU usage If you look at the screen dump, you will see that to the left of the middle of the CPU usage chart, CPU usage goes up and down, and to the right it's a steady line. I killed the beagled process at the time around the middle of the chart, so the "hills" in CPU usage must come from beagled.
In addition to my screendump: I often play the game BZFlag (drive around in your tank and shoot others). Until recently, I thought my gamepad was failing, because my tank sometimes didn't respond to my use of the gamepad. After I began to shut down beagled, I haven't had problems with my gamepad, so I reckon that beagled ate up my CPU power now and then, leaving no power for the game and my gamepad, and leaving me with an unresponsive tank. beagled is a very annoying process to have running, even more so if you think about beagled being a "background process" that is supposed to make my life easier. My system has - 2GHz Celeron CPU - 768 MB Mem - 2GB swap and it handled FC5 just fine.
Apparently, we should be running something more recent, according to this page: http://beagle-project.org/Troubleshooting_CPU Any chance of an update for FC6?
Does this problem still exist for you with newer versions of beagle? The 2.15.x version in fedora 7 test 1 doesn't exhibit this problem for me.
Regarding comment #9, do you mean 0.2.15? Anyhow, an update for FC6 would be welcome if this version fixes the problem.
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