Ok, going to try to answer these one at a time. :) Paul: I don't understand what you mean by the second checkbox. That one doesn't exist, are you suggesting we add it? When you say "full index", do you mean the unthrottled indexing that happens when the screensaver is on? Note that this should *not* happen when you are on battery power. Battery power overrides the screensaver thing.
For (2), at present it monitors /proc/acpi/ac_adapter. In the future it will use HAL to determine this. There's no way at present to stop filtering a file in the middle, and in all but a few corner cases this won't come up. I'm not sure it's worth the effort; if the CPU is spinning for an extended period of time it's a bug that needs to be fixed because it affects all users negatively, not just battery users. (3) is something that is possible to do, but I don't know that a slider is useful for the user because there isn't any unit of measure there, and users can't objectively make a decision about what setting is right up front. The only way they can see what is going on is to actively measure their CPU usage, and nobody will do that. It may make sense to have a few pre-defined modes that people can set, however. Matthew: The real question here: Does beagled-helper ever release the CPU? Is it just finishing a fairly long stretch of indexing, or is there a bug which causes it to use 100% CPU forever? That's what we need to track down. Beagle just queries the X server as to whether or not it has a screensaver active, so whether it's blank or actually displaying something shouldn't matter. Edward: Sounds like a different issue. In all these cases, attaching your logs from ~/.beagle/Log (or emailing them directly to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) would help a lot in determining what the issue is. It would also be very helpful if people could try 0.2.12 (the latest version) and see how many of these problems are still present. Bugs similar to these have been fixed in large part because of the reports from Ubuntu users. (Thank you!) -- beagled-helper loads CPU https://launchpad.net/bugs/64326 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
