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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Too_much_system_load_on_startup.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Too_much_system_load_on_startup.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index fc514ca73..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/Too_much_system_load_on_startup.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -### Please describe the problem. -When I log in, if git annex is monitoring a large repo, my desktop is very sluggish getting started. Git-annex causes moderate CPU load, but keeps the disk IO very busy -delaying the opening of desktop applications. - -### What steps will reproduce the problem? -On Linux, with git-annex set to autostart and monitoring a folder with more than a few hundred files (I have a pdf library of a few thousand journal articles). - -### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? -4.20131002 Ubuntu, from Hess's PPA. - -### Please provide any additional information below. - -I solved this problem by changing the call to git-annex in /etc/xdg/autostart/git-annex.desktop from: - -Exec=/usr/bin/git-annex assistant --autostart - -to - -Exec=sleep 5 ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/git-annex assistant --autostart - -This delays the start of git-annex for 5 seconds, letting the desktop get started, and forces git-annex to yield IO to other programs -preventing it from slowing them down by forcing them to wait for disk access. Since this is a background daemon with potentially high IO usage, but no need for quick responsiveness, perhaps that would make a decent default? - -> Added 5 second delay to existing ionice. Provisionally [[done]], -> although it does occur to me that the startup scan could add some delays -> in between actions to run more as a batch job. --[[Joey]] |