[NTLUG:Discuss] opensuse and Beagle

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:04 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Whatever the indexer's name, it causes the same problems as Microsoft's
> indexer in that it gets loaded and started by default, and sucks up an
> unreal amount of CPU and system resources in certain cases, especially
> noticeable when you really need system response.

Well, all of them do things to try to alleviate that problem.  Most
don't start indexing immediately on login, they wait a fixed amount of
time to try and avoid when users are typically starting apps.  Almost
all run nice'd so that any process that wants the CPU over them will get
it.

The real issue here is IO.  Most users think of "need system response"
as I want my applications to start fast.  And most of that IO bound.
Most of login is IO bound.  And there is no way to 'nice' IO currently.
That's a kernel issue and will hopefully be solved by some of the
schedulers that are currently being worked on.

Indexing is an important feature for users.

		--Ted