Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Travis Watkins
On 1/12/07, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im open to people's thoughts on this... (IE is 100% cpu usage at > nice+19/ionice+7 during indexing really a problem?) Having tracker use 100% CPU while the computer is on my lap kinda sucks. Well, actually it blows. Lots of hot air on my le

Beagle CPU usage (was Proposed module: tracker)

2007-01-12 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:04 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > 2. it requires _a lot_ of CPU power. > > Basically point 2 is a killer. No one is going to want to run this > except in servers. Keeping the CPU busy almost 100% of the time is not > nice: consumes more power, gets

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Joe Shaw wrote: > Hi, > > Jamie McCracken wrote: >> point 2 is scheduled at nice +19 (same with Ionice +7) so it only uses >> more cpu if its idle. > > That's not quite how the nice level works, at least in Linux. Higher > nice values get a shorter timeslice, so they merely have less time to

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, Jamie McCracken wrote: > point 2 is scheduled at nice +19 (same with Ionice +7) so it only uses > more cpu if its idle. That's not quite how the nice level works, at least in Linux. Higher nice values get a shorter timeslice, so they merely have less time to get their work in before othe

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On 1/12/07, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Schreiber wrote: > > Is it possible for tracker to use the gnome-power-manager api so that > > the indexer will only run at all or at full speed when AC power is > > available? There could be some kind of throttled mode or only process

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Richard Hughes
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 14:21 +, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > > thanks thats a good idea (I assume I can use dbus to get the info so > dont have to depend on any gnome stuff) Yes. You can either get the AC power info from HAL (if you want to play with all the devices and changed signals manuall

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 13:26 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: [snip] > it makes my computer slowe _while I'm working with it_. [snip] updatedb started causing similar problems on distros from the the last year or so. I don't understand why the nice level isn't preventing this. Also, shouldn'

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Adam Schreiber wrote: > On 1/12/07, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Basically point 2 is a killer. No one is going to want to run this >> except in servers. Keeping the CPU busy almost 100% of the time is not >> nice: consumes more power, gets my computer fan running fas

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On 1/12/07, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically point 2 is a killer. No one is going to want to run this > except in servers. Keeping the CPU busy almost 100% of the time is not > nice: consumes more power, gets my computer fan running faster and more > loudly.. I c

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > IMHO, an ideal indexing program would receive file add/modify/delete > notifications and record these notifications in a work queue for later > processing. Then, when the user logs out or the screen is locked the > indexer starts processing the notifications

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Sex, 2007-01-12 at 13:08 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > How much cpu does updatedb takes? It is what we are using with > gnome-search-tool right now. Everytime cron start it, it starts eating > my cpu every day. This computer (work desktop) I leave connected during the night, and updatedb onl

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2007/1/12, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Having tried tracker 0.5.3 for a couple of days what I have to say is: 1. it uses little memory; 2. it requires _a lot_ of CPU power. Basically point 2 is a killer. No one is going to want to run this except in servers. Kee

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > Having tried tracker 0.5.3 for a couple of days what I have to say is: > 1. it uses little memory; > 2. it requires _a lot_ of CPU power. > > Basically point 2 is a killer. No one is going to want to run this > except in servers. Keeping the CPU bus

Re: Proposed module: tracker

2007-01-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
Having tried tracker 0.5.3 for a couple of days what I have to say is: 1. it uses little memory; 2. it requires _a lot_ of CPU power. Basically point 2 is a killer. No one is going to want to run this except in servers. Keeping the CPU busy almost 100% of the time is not nice: consum

Re: printing options not totally efficient

2007-01-12 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:18 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > > Thats because that was the intended behaviour. However, maybe we're > > sending the wrong cups commands for this ("page-set" is "even" or "odd", > > and "number-up" for the more pages per sheet). > > Where should I file a bug so in time th

Re: printing options not totally efficient

2007-01-12 Thread David Prieto
> Thats because that was the intended behaviour. However, maybe we're > sending the wrong cups commands for this ("page-set" is "even" or "odd", > and "number-up" for the more pages per sheet). Where should I file a bug so in time this issue can be fixed? _

Re: printing options not totally efficient

2007-01-12 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:06 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:17 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > > Which is obviously wrong and makes the final printed document difficult > > as hell to read. So my proposal is, when setting printing options like > > even/odd or inverse order, c

Re: Proposed suite: developer tools

2007-01-12 Thread dodji Seketeli
> I might be stupid but Vermine reversed would be enimrev? Heh. No. What you say is not stupid :-) What I reversed is not the string of characters, but the string of syllables (or phonemes, if you prefer). I agree Syllables are hard to define because their definition is at least language specific