On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:03, Kelly Price <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > Thanks! According to what you and Auke Kok wrote, I suggest that powertop should check for not only beagle but also other desktop search engines, and should suggest to stop desktop searching (instead of only suggest to stop beagle) unless the user really need it. In this way more users would benefit.
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