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and subject line Bug#623619: fixed in liferea 1.8.3-0.1
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regarding liferea: constant wasteful disk accesses kill system performance
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Package: liferea
Version: 1.6.5-1
Severity: important
I have a laptop with a 5400 RPM disk, an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
processor, and 3GB of RAM. This machine runs very well normally.
However, when I upgrade this system with liferea running, the load
average spikes to in excess of 7. When I kill liferea, the load average
drops within seconds to below 4 and within a few more to far below that.
By using htop, I can see that liferea constantly makes numerous very
small IO requests. This is wasteful because it inhibits the ability of
other, much more important processes to use the disk and it makes it
difficult for the kernel to efficiently optimize disk accesses. It also
prevents the disk from ever spinning down and causes the CPU to be used
more often than it should, both of which needlessly waste power.
I expect liferea to use modern, sane disk access patterns that do not
constantly drag down the performance of the rest of the system,
including batching disk reads and writes to maximize performance. If
liferea cannot do this, for some very, very good reason, it should
probably use mmap so that all the data can be faulted in at once (which
should not be at startup; see #502307 and [0]) to avoid this barrage of
tiny disk accesses.
This bug is filed as important because of the impact on other processes
and power management. I personally do not feel it should be part of any
further stable releases in this condition, but I am not the maintainer.
[0] In the past, liferea has caused such problems at startup that when
it is loaded as part of the GNOME session, it causes the panels not to
appear as a result of it exacerbating some (unknown) race condition.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages liferea depends on:
ii gconf2 2.32.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libatk1.0-0 2.0.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.8-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.92-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.32.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-5 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii libnm-glib2 0.8.3.999-1 network management framework (GLib
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.34.0-1 HTTP library implementation in C -
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.5-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.2.7-2 Web content engine library for Gtk
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-7+b1 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii liferea-data 1.6.5-1 architecture independent data for
Versions of packages liferea recommends:
ii curl 7.21.4-2 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii dbus 1.4.8-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dbus-x11 1.4.8-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii wget 1.12-3 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages liferea suggests:
ii network-manager 0.8.998-1 network management framework daemo
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Source: liferea
Source-Version: 1.8.3-0.1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
liferea, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
liferea-data_1.8.3-0.1_all.deb
to main/l/liferea/liferea-data_1.8.3-0.1_all.deb
liferea-dbg_1.8.3-0.1_amd64.deb
to main/l/liferea/liferea-dbg_1.8.3-0.1_amd64.deb
liferea_1.8.3-0.1.debian.tar.gz
to main/l/liferea/liferea_1.8.3-0.1.debian.tar.gz
liferea_1.8.3-0.1.dsc
to main/l/liferea/liferea_1.8.3-0.1.dsc
liferea_1.8.3-0.1_amd64.deb
to main/l/liferea/liferea_1.8.3-0.1_amd64.deb
liferea_1.8.3.orig.tar.gz
to main/l/liferea/liferea_1.8.3.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Moray Allan <[email protected]> (supplier of updated liferea package)
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:44:42 +0100
Source: liferea
Binary: liferea liferea-data liferea-dbg
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 1.8.3-0.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Moray Allan <[email protected]>
Description:
liferea - feed aggregator for GNOME
liferea-data - architecture independent data for liferea
liferea-dbg - liferea debug symbols
Closes: 502307 623619 631778 651913
Changes:
liferea (1.8.3-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Bojo42 ]
* Non-maintainer upload.
* New upstream release (Closes: #502307, #623619, #631778, #651913)
* debian/patches:
- drop libnotify0.7 as in upstream
- debian-example-feeds: update, move planets from "News" to "Open Source"
- www-browser: update due to new file location
- libtool-dont-rearange-as-needed: rebase
* debian/control:
- update Standards-Version
- remove obsolete Build-Depends:
- quilt not needed for "3.0 (quilt)" source format
- libnm-glib-dev & libdbus-glib-1-dev: upstream switched to GDBus
- liblua5.1-0-dev: LUA scripting support got dropped
- new Build-Depends on libunique-dev, libjson-glib-dev & dh_autoreconf
- update version dependencies
* debian/rules: run dh_autoreconf & update translations
* debian/liferea.install: nothing to ship from /usr/lib/liferea
.
[ Rodrigo Gallardo ]
* Lintian love:
- debian/control: switch from Conflicts to Breaks
- debian/rules: redo build targets
.
[ Moray Allan ]
* debian/copyright: update to include additional copyright owners.
* debian/patches/www-browser: also set default external browser.
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