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tumblerd-monitor problem

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mithrandir
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tumblerd-monitor problem

#1 Post by mithrandir »

Hi, I have a process called tumblerd-monitor that cause this:

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17757 user  20   0   47604   2648   1888 R 100,0  0,0 459:56.05 tumblerd-monitor                       
It uses one of my cpu all time at 100%...
I read this post viewtopic.php?f=97&t=42506&p=417271&hil ... or#p417186 but I have not understood how to fix definitively this problem.
The rest of system works fine =)

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dolphin_oracle
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#2 Post by dolphin_oracle »

that is odd.

I think you can disable the monitor in Session & Startup.

Be advised, the reason the monitor is there is that tumblr, which generates thumbnails for Xfce, can sometimes run out of control and take over your CPU. The monitor is there to kill and restart tumbler in the event it goes haywire.
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Richard
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#3 Post by Richard »

I've been wondering just what tumblerd does.
When I saw this post, I decided I should find out.
Came across this post: viewtopic.php?t=42506

Is it still so buggy? for some.
I occasionally see 1 core spike and I suppose it could be the monitor that brings it down,
but I don't know.

I will turn it off and see. I can probably live without thumbnails. I'll try it.
Thinkpad T430 & Dell Latitude E7450, both with MX-21.3.1
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#4 Post by dolphin_oracle »

To be clear, turning off the monitor will not kill tumbler. they are separate things.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Richard
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#5 Post by Richard »

Ah, I see.
Guess it should be on if tumbler is installed.

If I remove tumbler, it takes out tumbler-0.1.31-2+b3, tumbler-plugins-extra-0.1.31-2+b3
but not tumbler-common-0.1.31-2 nor libtumbler-0.1.31-2+b3.

I'll try just those 2 first. Then see if apt-autoclean wants to remove them: Nope.
Now reboot and see what happens.
Thinkpad T430 & Dell Latitude E7450, both with MX-21.3.1
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
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stsoh
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#6 Post by stsoh »

don't forget to delete thumbnails in home/user/.thumbnail folder.
i have 2hdd (2 terabyte ea) storage, thousands of thumbnails. :eek:
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i_ri
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#7 Post by i_ri »

hello mithrandir and hello dolphin_oracle
Have had twice the runaway process tumblerd on 17. first time was explainable as was trying to format sd cards plugging and unplugging multiple times. the second time was an unattended computer, it started after ten hours idle. when it happens it seems to be running on only one of multiple cores; that may be explanation for why tumblerd-monitor somehow does not end it. momentary haywire. twice in all this time is no big deal here; wanting the thumbnails and keeping the monitor in place.

Understand it would be a problem if it happened often. how frequent is the runaway?

nathan2423
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#8 Post by nathan2423 »

I am in the middle of a tumblerd-monitor slowdown and I was nowhere near thunar at the time - This would be extremely frustrating to a new user who might think this is some mysterious glitch in MX-17.

And after reading through some threads it is not clear to me at all what to do about it. If this thing is not an important system component I want it gone! ;-)

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dolphin_oracle
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#9 Post by dolphin_oracle »

nathan2423 wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 8:48 pm I am in the middle of a tumblerd-monitor slowdown and I was nowhere near thunar at the time - This would be extremely frustrating to a new user who might think this is some mysterious glitch in MX-17.

And after reading through some threads it is not clear to me at all what to do about it. If this thing is not an important system component I want it gone! ;-)

its easy to stop. in "Session and Startup" uncheck the box, login, and logout.

tumbler generates thumbnails under Xfce, and not just for thunar. the tumblerd-monitor script tries to prevent tumbler itself from taking over your cpu, which can happen if it tries to scan a folder with thousands of thumbnails to generate.

if you don't want thumbnails, remove tumbler using synaptic.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

nathan2423
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Re: tumblerd-monitor problem

#10 Post by nathan2423 »

Thanks Dolphin-Oracle. I removed using synaptic.

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