Nokia-N800-51:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler
metalayer-crawler0: /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler


This process I have found twice using 70+MB Memory. I have 180MB swap setup and it was using over 150MB before I killed it

I appears to have something to do with the media player, according to /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0

I added exit 0 to the top of the init script, seems ok after reboot.

My guess is it is used to find media mp3,video on mmc cards. This is just a guess, but its not running on my N800 anymore.

Anyone know what this is actually for? Anyone else seen this issue also?

Anyone else able to confirm this problem?

I may have this issue... using top I see 8 instances of metalayer-crawler running each claiming 3.2% of RAM. What are you using to see mem and swap usage? top on the N800 is very stripped down.

One thing... /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler will run in the foreground ("-F") and has a debug mode ("-d"). It could help to see what it's really doing.

"free" will tell you how much is used. There is a tool in the application 2006 catalog

mpv
http://www.newlc.com/IMG/deb/mpv_0.5_armel.deb

Yuo can see each process and how much memory is used

Ahh... I knew about free, and I saw you mention "mpv" in the other thread, but I didn't see it in the apps catalog.

Thank you!

Got it.

For those looking over my/our shoulder, mpv also needs the libglade v2 library which can be had with: apt-get install libglade2-0, or kick into RED PILL mode and install it from AppsManager.

Any luck? I am curious if that thing is freaking out for anyone else. I have about 1000 files on my mmc card, none of which are media related.

Kinda... Right now I have two instances of it running. But, they're only taking 4M each (which still seems like a LOT).

When I started into this thread, I had 8 instances running, but I was able to watch them die off (through top).

My gut feel is that you're right - they're freaking out trying to parse your MMC card. It's one of those states where it doesn't know that it can't get anything from the file until it looks.

I'm gonna drop a bunch of random files on my card and see if I can get the crawler into a tizzy.

More in a bit.

update...

I have 1128 files now in a folder on an MMC card. All of them have size (at least >4k).

I still "only" have two copies of metalayer-crawler running, each occupying 4M of RAM.

If I: /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler -F -d -c /media/mmc2/_junk

mpv shows two more instances, both are using 2M.

If I kill ALL of them (so, 4) then two will auto-restart, each taking 2M.


I'll keep playing.

Who knows maybe it was something I had installed that hosed it? I am again not sure what it does, but I found it twice on my system running 70+ mb, the second time it was very unresponsive and slow, but functional, it was using most of my 128mb swap partition + all the internal memory. If I had not had swap, it would have rebooted.