On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Steve Langasek [2014-10-08 13:10 -0700]: >> It has been pointed out that Ubuntu also has an indexer, zeitgeist, which >> apparently doesn't suffer from the same problem. > > To clarify: For the most part, zeitgeist only stores access events, i. > e. metadata like "accessed this video at this time". There have been > some experiments with making it index full file contents, but I don't > believe we have/use that. > > In earlier Ubuntu releases we used to install various file content > indexers by default (like tracker), and in the end they all sucked. By > nature they are using ginormous I/O and nontrivial CPU bandwidth all > the time, causing both desktop slowdown and much higher battery drain. > > So the desktop team decided some time ago to not install a file > indexer by default. People who actually do want this can install > tracker. The desktop slowdown can probably be addressed with some > clever scheduler/ionice/whatever magic, but the cpu/IO/power usage > will not go down no matter how you schedule things. > > Martin > > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release >
Just as a side note, the udev rule that I introduced only changes the scheduler for rotational media. If the disk is a SSD, there is no change to the scheduler. Cheers Rohan Garg -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel