I just upgraded to Kubuntu 14.04, so KDE 4.13.0, and I am experiencing the following bug

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332421

where Baloo eats up all my memory on start-up. I added my home folder and second hard drive to the exclusion list, so that it doesn't eat up my RAM anymore. The consequence, of course, is that it does not index my files for searching.

What I want to know is this: Is Baloo supposed to eat up all my ram when indexing my files for the first time? I would think no, but I have a lot of files and a lot are large, etc. If this is a one-time thing I might let it run for a while and see what happens. If this is not normal behavior I will keep it disabled and see what comes of the bug.

Many thanks!

Baloo is definitely not intended to behave in this manner. How much RAM does your system have? Baloo uses Xapian, which as part of the process of building the index may use a certain amount of memory - but this shouldn't be too excessive. Were you able to observe the name of the process which was using excessive amounts of RAM?

I recently reinstalled my system (for other reasons). Baloo ran normally and indexed my files. Not sure what it was before. Sorry for the belated reply!