M Harris wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2007 12:22, Sloan wrote: > >> It would be great if the beagle devs could take a page from >> the boinc playbook, and only use CPU when it is not being used by other >> apps. >> > You mean like the windoze devs...? > Nope, I mean the boinc devs - windoze is not a worthy role model.
> cpu timeslice should *never* be in the hands of app developers. Who said anything about cpu timeslice? we're talking pure userland here. > The kernel > schedules the cpu, and timeslice.... not app devs. (windoze never mind) > It's defintely in the hands of the app, in the sense that the app can *not* demand resources. > However, a sysadmin can adjust the cpu timeslice for beagle, or any other > cpu intensive app, so that they crawl along happily in the background. The > apps under such control take longer to complete of course... but in the case > of massive indexing like beagle --who cares? > The problem is, Aunt Martha should not have to wrestle with that. There should be a sane default setting. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
