On 4/3/09, Mr. Wang Long <[email protected]> wrote: > Powertop is a quite useful tool to help us minimize the energy usage. > One of its suggestion is that remove or disable beagle, which is not > very efficiency; however no alternative choice is provided. >
Beagle is a desktop search engine, which reads through files and indexes them for faster searching. It does this on every file it can lay it's hands on, as soon as it hits the caches. That means your CPU's running, your drive's running, and your burning juice there while the laptop stands there looking dumb. Alternative choice? There's no alternative. You ether disable it for when you're on battery power, or think "Do I really search *THAT* often for a file?" Answering "No" means you should remove Beagle and just use ol' grep when you need it. Answering "Yes" means you really should be thinking about organizing your files better. -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://strredwolf.furrynet.com _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
