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The baloo_file_extractor process in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS takes up a lot of memory. top reports 84.3% of my 15.6 GB, - and some 20% (more or less) of the CPU.

I do not even run KDE, - I am in a Gnome session.

I note that there has previously (in 2014) been a problem with baloo_file_extractor, see How to keep Baloo running but with lower ressource consumption? But I suppose that is fixed. I do not have any external media mounted.

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    For now (as I am running Gnome), I have done this dramatic fix: sudo aptitude remove baloo-kf5, logout and login, i.e., removing KDE parts. Aug 21, 2018 at 13:31

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I removed baloo through Synaptic. It turned out to be associated with KDE's file manager, which I had tried but found no advantage over using Ubuntu's. So I removed all of it.

Baloo was using 6 GB of RAM which is ridiculous. I just installed it a week ago, in late August, 2019, I don't think they fixed it! And it had a subprocess that was using a lot of resources as well. Every time I booted up my computer I had to go into process manager and terminal and kill them or my computer would crawl.

I'm not even going to try to fix something like that, that's for KDE/ Kubuntu, if they cared, which they must not. It seems like none of their utilities work properly without creating far more problems than they're worth. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. I might install the Kubuntu desktop only in time, but I'm leaving its utilities alone!

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