> only app to be recommended for removal by the tool itself. The remaining > kernel. That doesn't seem very fair, does it? > > --- snip from strings /usr/bin/powertop --- > Suggestion: Disable or remove 'beagle' from your system. > Beagle is the program that indexes for easy desktop search, however it's > not very efficient and costs a significant amount of battery life. > beagled : schedule_timeout
Now now ... continuous looping on a directory, taking 100% cpu power for a long time, re-indexing already indexed files, ever-increasing memory size ... there are other problems to tackle than saving power. Obviously beagle consumes power. Indexing does not come for free. I wonder what powertop says when scheduler is disabled (aka when on battery and the conf option to not index on battery is turned on). If you google for "schedule_timeout powerout", there are many other apps (mostly long running) too that are misbehaving. It could very well be a required feature of these apps and not necessarily a bad thing. I checked the source http://powertop.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/powertop.c and it is amusing to see only one suggest_process_death(...) there, for beagled. Beagle is an easy target, nothing new :) - dBera -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
