Michal Pryc wrote: > I have to agree with Michael that spending 20 min on indexingh with 50% > will take probably more power than 10min/100%. The other thing is hard > drive which is spinning much longer during 20min than 10 and also is > power consuming. But to be honest I did not thought from this point of > view, great point! The charts shows the CPU utilisation without other > heavy running tasks. The other thing is about "user feeling" which can > not be measured, because it depends on various things. For example > someone who don't know that `nice` exists will run xmms or mplayer which > might have the same priority that beagle or strigi does (I don't know > why trackerd is using priority 34/35??),
trackerd always runs at nice+19 hence the higher value priority (higher value means less priority!) you can play quake while tracker is indexing and see no slow down at all (trackerd cpu goes to ~1%) so during watching the movie or > listening to the music and running 30 other applications normal user, > would like to run the system with indexer almost without noticing that > something is running.Another use case is to left computer for the night > to index all the things, than we would like to run everything using as > much resources as possible. So this is quite interesting thing to > discuss, what resources should *ideal* indexer uses and what choices for > the user should be left. thats why we support two modes in tracker (via command line switches) turbo (faster) and normal (slower but less obtrusive) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
