Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Laurent Rineau]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 12:08:41 Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:40 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > Replying to myself, I see my ~/rpmbuild (which I /happily/ use as an
> > archive) is being indexed with:
> >
> > /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q --package --queryformat [%{*:xml}?] /path/to/rpm
> >
> > Apparently it's threaded, because this one happily consuming 100% CPU,
> > happily locking up my funky beryl desktop. Then it seems beagle-helper
> > catches some output because it gets too excited and happily consumes
> > like 20% CPU next to the 100-20% CPU being consumed by the other happy
> > process.
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, sometime in the future I'll try again.
>
> Please look at this video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8P_X8UK2fQ
>
> is the use-case you are having really a bug? Beagle has to index files
> in order to make desktop search possible. Every process that actually
> does something uses 100% of the cpu - only issue is how well it plays
> with the desktiop. Beagle should be running a high NICE so it shouldn't
> impact your desktop experience while it indexes files...
> To me your experience with beagle just shows that beagle is working and
> it doesn't show that beagle is buggy and kills your system.

Exhibiting one case where does things nicely is not a justification.

On my desktop, Beagle is regularly browsing my files. I am not even sure that 
is has indexed all my documents, even if I am using it for six months.

I regularly (about once a week) need to trigger beagle-shutdown when my load 
is high, even though the beagle daemon has nice=19. You can blame the kernel 
scheduler, perhaps.

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Laurent Rineau
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